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Re: Inside the Tribunal's Shuttle Bay: PCS Paul Dirac
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:39:49 GMT
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As one “in the know,” and a physics teacher, I can appreciate the Paul Dirac
trivia. Good to see some science/physics types out there. Of course, most of
us on .space probably wouldn’t be into space without being science/physics
types. Thanks Lenny!
Bill Pfund
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| (...) Originally, the shuttle was named after a certain Science Fiction author who shall now remain nameless. But when lenny told me about Paul Dirac and his accomplishments, it just seemed suitable to name the shuttle after the man who first (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) I am. For anyone in the know, Paul Dirac has been called the 2nd greatest scientific thinker of the 20th Century (he was called that by Stephen Hawking). Dirac made the first step towards combining Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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