Childish Playground Taunting --Re: Nobel Prize for Materials Science

From: jbuch (jbuch_at_CUTHERErevealed.net)
Date: 03/27/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:44:50 -0600

Childish playground taunting.

Come back once a year. It would be interesting to see if you grow up.

I am betting $10 against significant maturity gains in the near term.

Bret Cahill wrote:
> About 4 years ago I was so frustrated with the empiricism of materials
> I posted my pipe dream about an alloy calculator:
> www.alloypredict.com. "Just put in the composition and out comes that
> material properties." I received an Email from someone approving of my
> "sense of humor." Materials will drive people to such desperation they
> will click on anything.
>
> A couple of years later some Japanese actually came up with an equation
> or program or something that could predict properties of some alloys
> based on composition. This needs to be encouraged.
>
> Some computer billionire needs to fund an annual award to anyone who
> can help clean up this awful mess with a few good broad sweeping
> generalizations that would make life easier for designers. The payback
> would be much more effective than medical research. After all, it was
> some materials guy who invented the chip.
>
> A lot of engineers really wonder how something as critical as materials
> "science" -- actually just a menagerie of completely unrelated facts --
> has managed to retain its dark ages backwards wichcraft voodoo
> encyclopedic nature late into the info age.
>
> I have no conflicts of interest with this suggestion. I can guarantee
> I'm not going to be on any short or long list.
>
>
> Bret Cahill
> 

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