Terry, > How could you leave out HG Wells?!?
Well, I didn't really ;-) This was really kind of a test to see if there were any "plants" on vortex (agents) who could be outed. I have long suspected that you could be one of them, but you didn't take the bait... or did you? Maybe it is just another machination in the spy-vs-spy maneuverings of rapidly bi-furcating agents from differing convergent realities. Anyway, on the bottom of the Chaplin page re: ice-9 is this amazing little tidbit: The hydrogen bonding is mostly proton-ordered as ice-three undergoes a proton disorder-order transition to ice-nine when rapidly cooled in liquid nitrogen (77 K, so avoiding ice-two formation, see Phase Diagram); ice-three and ice-nine having identical structures apart from the proton ordering. [OK. This is a *very* critical piece of technical evidence which I will return to in another posting]. but first on the lighter side.... Next is the key passage, where Prof. Chaplin dutifully adds, *The ice-nine, described by Kurt Vonnegut in 'Cat's Cradle' , with a freezing point well above ambient under normal atmospheric pressure is fortunately a completely fictitious material, reportedly invented by the Nobel prize winner Irving Langmuir to entertain H. G. Wells.* Imagine that, Nobel prize winner and staid scientist Langmuir, entertaining H. G. Wells with a supposedly "Sci-Fi" story about a special kind of ice. Did Wells himself catch-on to the ploy? Sometimes I suspect that Langmuir and Dirac were twins, separated at birth, and either was himself was meant to be the single latest "plant" in the modern era (in the tradition of Lao Tsu, Socrates, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Newton, etc) who was knowingly or unknowingly acting as... not just a "spy" for a superior alien race, but more as an agent sent to accomplish certain goals and occasionally "slipping up" by giving us glimpses of a future beyond which we were not meant to see. At the given time period... such as, in the case of Langmuir/Dirac, the ultimate intention of the handlers is unknown but was it - to be a future powered by an unknown source of energy (ZPE), and was that intended to be divulged, or was it a slip-up ?.... if... for instance, they had not been somehow separated-at-birth (Coyote-trickster at work ! )... then, of course, we would likely already be in the ZPE-powered era, should that had been the mission all along. Score one for coyote. His torch (Langmuir's torch) was the first ZPE powered device invented in our 3-space, and now we find out that he again slipped up by mentioning ice-9 to Wells. Perhaps much more was meant to be accomplished before the bifurcation. To cover his tracks, of course, should it turn out that harnessing ZPE was NOT part of the intended mission - his "handlers" would have made him concoct the whole "pathological science" thing and shift the weight of scientific thought away from the correct course.... very clever, I must admit. ... or was that the work of Coyote? Jones
