5 Feb
1999
5 Feb
'99
5:10 a.m.
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Dwight Elvey wrote:
We built the bomb on sound understanding of the
principles involved. We used things that were already
there. We didn't invent a new nature of matter to make
it work, we observed a natural processes that we knew
worked and went from there. We didn't take a model
of nature that we knew wasn't consistant with what
we saw and expected it to create something that wasn't
there before.
Dwight, a hundred years from now, when historians write stories about
those in the 20th century who thought zero-point energy was poppy-cock,
they'll be talking about you :)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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