Luke Coletti contributed: > It reminds me though of a physics >book I read as a teenager, that was published around the >turn-of-the-century, and that claimed "no machine will ever be created >that can play a game of chess". Oh really...
*********************************************** The author was in good company "It has been demonstrated by the fruitlessness of a thousand attempts that it is not possible for a machine, moving under its own power, to generate enough force to raise itself, or sustain itself, in the air." 1847 "Les Cents Marveilles des Sciences et Arts." M.de Marles and, best (or perhaps worst) of all: "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" 1895 Lord Kelvin (British mathematician, physicist and President of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Science) ************************************************ Now time travel...that's definitely impossible.....! but it almost get me back on topic so what the heck! Tony Moss
