Now if you're happy trusting your data to
soemthing you don't fully
understnad, then fine.
There are some aspects of lightbulbs that I'm not sure that I fully
understand,
OK, I don't think I can calculate the melting point of tungsten from
first principles :-)
And of course nobody knows how anything will behave. There is nothing to
stop a light bulb suddenly shooting off across the room. The atoms have
enough thermal energy, and if they all happeend to move in the same
direction for long enough, that is what would happen. But it is so
unlikely it doesn't bother me.
But then again I do not expect the filament of my light bulb to swap
between beign a conductor and an insulator at 1 second intervales.
Sometimes, I have to take the risk of relying on the competence of others.
Isn't THAT a scary thought?
The problem is that often people who claim to be competent are anything
but.
-tony