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Magic Bullet - 08-04-2007, 03:34 PM - RascalPuff

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It was a mystery for years why a co-axially - clockwise (right-hand) - spinning bullet, fired horizontally, parallel to the surface of a calm body of water, veered off to the left (counter-clockwise) when it skipped across the water...

The enigma was finally resolved when it was realized that the clockwise spin was causing the back end of ...

“Man began speculating about atoms long before science became an organized activity Even to the ancient Greeks it appeared sensible to assume that there might be some kind of ultimate building blocks of matter...
“Then, many centuries later, the great Isaac Newton concluded that matter was formed in ‘solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles’ - in other words, the atom was something like a billiard ball. Newton’s idea (*of the described ‘particle’) was pure speculation.” - MATTER, ...

The Art of Communication

Russell Hoban

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language ... even when they speak the same language?

Communication is a difficult art. How can we be sure

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Zeno’s Paradox: Reprise.
The premise for Zeno’s ancient paradox is that if and when a straight line - A - B - continues to be divided in half, you never get to the other end.

You keep dividing yer spatial halves in half and you just don’t get to B from A.

OK.

Meanwhile, in the real world, you can arrive at B from A when you simply move from A to B.

Departures from A and arrivals at B happen all the time.

What Zeno’s ...

For more cost free rhythm and reason, please consider a season that resonantly sings beyond theories of strings.

From Euclid's straight line shine to Isaac's golden apple and its geodesic grapple.

A catchy little tune that most anyone can croon, by the curved silvery light of Albert's expeditionary moon.

Dr. Einstein's waking inspiration may yet sweep the sleeping nation at the slightest provocation.

An unrecognized solution that ...