Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:50:24 +0000

In message <4214d506.116850600@netnews.att.net>, Lester Zick
<lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> writes
>On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:29:48 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
><nowhere@nowhere.net> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>
>>Albert wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, it played a part in the invention of transistors.
>>
>>Transistors were invented at Bell Lab. A direct consquence of the
>>quantum theory of solds. Check out the history of how the transistor was
>>developed at Bell.
>>
>>There is no classical theory that correctly accounts for how charges
>>move in semi-conductors.
>
>But there is for how they move vacuum tubes or valves as the British
>call them.

How they move, yes. How they get out of the cathode is another story. 

-- 
Richard Herring

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