Re: Feynman Lectures on X-ons

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 02/19/05


Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:55:39 +0000 (UTC)


<jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote in message
news:7cudnUNFJtTNaIjfRVn-hA@rcn.net...
> In article <PIqdnfISzudSRIjfRVn-tg@rcn.net>, jmfbahciv@aol.com
wrote:
> >In article <cv33p6$dm3$4@sparta.btinternet.com>,
> > "Franz Heymann" <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >>
> >><jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote in message
> >>news:ecmdnXBl2JaxBYnfRVn-uw@rcn.net...
> >>> In article
<1108643563.949210.94270@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
> >>> "Q-on" <physicsofchi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> <snip>
> >>>
> >>> Is there really such a noun in physics as X-on? This is
> >>> going to cause problems, if so. Pick another letter.
> >>
> >>Unfortunately Feynman picked it forty years ago in an amusing
musing.
> >
> >And the computer biz picked it just a tad earlier. Well, it's
> >a heads up for me to take care of context when the word shows up.
> >
> >Thanks.
>
> As long as I'm spending the bandwidth on words, does physics
> have such a thingie as q-rays?

Not as far as I know.
It did have N-rays for a while, till the scam was exposed.

-- 
Franz
The designers of foolproof equipment often forget the ingenuity of
fools


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