tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post2877070150525343331..comments2023-11-24T06:43:02.286+00:00Comments on Aspicientes in Jesum: Three Wassails for the ArchdruidPastor in Montehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-2013097186721438622011-09-18T22:25:27.746+01:002011-09-18T22:25:27.746+01:00Part-time Pilgrim - you're right, when it'...Part-time Pilgrim - you're right, when it's a generally-accepted theory - of course you're right. A physicist disproving a widely-believed theory, after being burnt as a heretic, will be revered as a saint. And, in order to get a few billion of my own, I'm going to propose that, if you can only isolate them in sufficient quantities, positrons taste of strawberries. I won't be doing the tasting myself, of course.Archdruid Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849759985107161674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-16164828492070687782011-09-18T19:54:16.526+01:002011-09-18T19:54:16.526+01:00The pursuit of scientific knowledge has an economi...The pursuit of scientific knowledge has an economic cost. This cost is not about narrowly-defined human needs. I would hope it is an exercise of human responsibility.<br /><br />I am one of those who think this cost is intrinsically oriented towards the promotion of the common good.jangojingohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03768595208457396309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-91638528473334555972011-09-18T18:59:12.603+01:002011-09-18T18:59:12.603+01:00To a physicist NOT finding what you expect is more...To a physicist NOT finding what you expect is more exciting than actually finding it because it means the generally accepted theories are wrong.Part-time Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183889477468203531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-18853315758469102582011-09-18T18:22:03.867+01:002011-09-18T18:22:03.867+01:00William - I suspect you'll find it was the kin...William - I suspect you'll find it was the kind of billiards where you find your economy cannoning off a banking crisis and into a black hole. With no net in the pocket.Archdruid Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849759985107161674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-1493730483510166512011-09-18T16:15:36.640+01:002011-09-18T16:15:36.640+01:00Dear Father, I do not quite agree with your negati...Dear Father, I do not quite agree with your negative take on the hadron collider, but perhaps I can make you feel better about its cost. The "billion" they use these days is really only a thousand million. The true billion is a million million, but revolutionary France and the nascent USA started the rot and used the word billion for what the Germans call Milliard and we call a thousand million. So three billion spent on the collider is only three thousand million not three million million. Interestingly, the current use of trillion is therefore only really a true billion. A thousand billion would of course be a billiard! I wonder what sort of billiards Greece thought it was playing?William Youngnoreply@blogger.com