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Interesting stuff you find on the way to other interesting stuff!
So, I was reading the first Henry Deacon transcript last night, and I came across this Q & A: Quote:
Hit #8 on the list had a cool title, so I click for the extract, and it says: Quote:
Now, I am NOT a physics weenie. But I have been their keeper, before. Actually, I was the mechanical designer in the Engineering Dept for a particle accelerator project. Now "Physics Weenies" tend to be real cracker-jack at fancy math, cogitating the behavior of odd particles, and whatnot, but when it comes to the "other real world" they have a tendency to be not too "hooked up". It was this side of them that earned them the nickname "The Slip-on Brigade" in our dept; as this was the only kind of shoes you could let them out wearing, safely. Yes, the esoteric math is beyond my reach, even with all of my fingers and toes, but there is still some interesting reading there. Things like:
Now, the docs are almost all in PDF form, and some of them have been locked, meaning you can read them, print them, but you can't copy/paste from them. But, the files are just like he said, "...right now you can see it with your own eyes." Interesting stuff, indeed.
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