On 14 August 2010 01:34, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I majored in Nuclear Physics as a freshman for 1.5 trimesters in 1961, > I don't think I paid more than $18.00 for my books. Turned out I was way too > scholastically underprepared to be in that field. I guess discussing all > about it with my Dad over dinner most nights doesn't count. He had home > schooled himself from a BS in Zoology in 1933 to a Masters in Math & Physics > specializing in Nuclear Energy between 1953 and 1956. Good enough to be the > US Representative at the ISO conferences at the Hague where they worked on > and off for years to standardize working condition safety in everything from > a dentists office X-ray, hospital usage, on to weapons production and power > generation. I should have paid more attention to his Math studies instead of > the dazzling Physics revelations that were happening then. I did get to meet > some of the names in the business when we'd go into MIT which had a small > reactor, and a toroidal particle accelerator with a cloud chamber in which > one could observe (and photograph) the products of these early collisions. > > But I digress (as usual). Final point about textbooks.
Hey! The digression is far more interesting than the rant! :-) Keep digressing, sir. --M. -- \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
