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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Question of Theory of Everything (or Grand Unified theory)
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 04:00:45 GMT
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- dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE) writes:
-
- >Now you might think it astounding that you are alive at the same time as
- >Witten (:-D) but that is not surprising either, because most of the people
- >ever to have lived are alive today.
-
- This has nothing to do with physics, but the statement "most of the
- people ever to have lived are alive today" got debunked in a fairly
- credible manner on alt.folklore.urban a while ago.
-
- Still, there are certainly a lot of people around these days.
-
- >Which reminds me... Consider Galileo, Newton, Einstein. There should
- >be at least 3 people alive today as brilliant in physics as they were!
-
- They're probably in real estate.
-
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- Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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