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Subject:	Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:18:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes: > I don't care what you *believe* will happen if you split an atom, potential > energy *will* be released. ::sigh:: Potential has nothing to do with it, just as belief has nothing to do with it. It's an observable phenomena: if you split an atom, energy will be released. Emphasis dropped because it is not a wonder -- it is a known thing. Stop thinking in terms of miracles and cosmic overseers with grey beards... -- Hop-Frog

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		Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
(...) Forgive me if I stick my nose in for a point of clarification. John, your equivocation (or misprision, if you prefer) hinges on two distinct definitions of potential. In terms of physics, a system has potential energy bound up in the nature of (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
(...) I don't care what you believe will happen if you split an atom, potential energy will be released. JOHN (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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