Re: My Pal the Professor on History Channel


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On Mar 8, 1:11 pm, Lofty Goat <rlwatk...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It amazes me that while the cornerstones of modern science were being
laid, Americans were busy killing 250,000 of their own neighbors.

....and much of modern nuclear physics were discovered while preparing
to wipe out the same number of people (likely saving several million
others in the process).

The period 1840 to 1890 (roughly) was the golden age of chemistry,
even though chemical theory was still in the mask and rattles phase.
The golden age of physics was yet to come.

DB
The Golden Age of Physics began with Galileo and ended
with Newton, with occasional blooms from Doppler and
Michelson. It is now, like chemistry, in the technology phase
which does not include theoretical physics for failed
mathematicians. A rifle and bullet are essentially no different
to a bow and arrow, a nuclear weapon a power station in rapid
meltdown.


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