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Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) I don't care what you *believe* will happen if you split an atom, potential energy *will* be released. JOHN (21 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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