Invoking The Voyagers Against Id |
Invoking The Voyagers Against Id |
Oct 24 2005, 03:04 PM
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Cornell President Rawlings Condemns Intelligent Design
Drawing from sources ranging from Cornell's founders to Voyager space missions, Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings III condemned the push to teach intelligent design in public schools Friday. The attack came during the president's State of... http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/...4/435c7762cf891 "The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress." - Bertrand Russell -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Nov 17 2005, 07:58 PM
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I think Jeff is talking about the so called "superheavy atoms" in the island of stability that is predicted to occur at around N=184. We can at least conclude I think, that nature, when producing a supernova, is quite capable of producing anything that we are in the laboratory and that would therefore take us up to around 114 (or "Ununquadium" if you like) on the periodic table. It would seem a very minor stretch therefore to imagine that a supernova could easily add a mere ~10-20 nucleons to that size and reach the ~184 N "magic number" region of stability. Though I am unaware if there are any predictions of what "stable" means at these weights. It may mean a nanosecond for all I know. It is interesting to note though that there is currently a (some say very optomistic) experiment in France whoch is looking for the natural decay of Hassium-292 in a sample of osmium deep underground in a cave somewhere.
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