09-04-2002, 07:04 PM
I just think it would be really cool to meet people who are way smarter than I ever could imagine to be.
I might have a question or two for them, maybe I'd try to get a nugget or two of wisdom, but I would just like to meet the people who fundamentally changed the way we thing about the world. I'd like to see what they think about their work if they could see how it affected the course of history.
We got to see a little of this with Einstien before he died. His work in special relaivity led to the theory behind the atomic bomb (you split a heavy nucleus into two smaller ones, their combined mass is less than the mass of the original, that difference in mass is converted to energy by E = mc^2...simialr thing in reverse for the Hydrogen bomb too) and he actually got to see that being used within his life at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Near the end of his life, he said that sometimes he wished he'd never thought of it because he saw the direction that nuclear proliferation was going in.
I'd like to ask some other historical figures similar things too
I might have a question or two for them, maybe I'd try to get a nugget or two of wisdom, but I would just like to meet the people who fundamentally changed the way we thing about the world. I'd like to see what they think about their work if they could see how it affected the course of history.
We got to see a little of this with Einstien before he died. His work in special relaivity led to the theory behind the atomic bomb (you split a heavy nucleus into two smaller ones, their combined mass is less than the mass of the original, that difference in mass is converted to energy by E = mc^2...simialr thing in reverse for the Hydrogen bomb too) and he actually got to see that being used within his life at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Near the end of his life, he said that sometimes he wished he'd never thought of it because he saw the direction that nuclear proliferation was going in.
I'd like to ask some other historical figures similar things too
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Your pocket Bible will stop an assailant's bullet, but not before it passes through four innocent bystanders, a school-bus gas tank, and your genitals.
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Your pocket Bible will stop an assailant's bullet, but not before it passes through four innocent bystanders, a school-bus gas tank, and your genitals.