Once in a while a tidbit of real value makes it through the vortex. The Ralph Waldo Emerson quote on the Hobgoblins of little minds is one such tidbit, Thanks!
From: Che [mailto:comandantegri...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1:15 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Rossi versus Darden trial settled On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com <mailto:kevmol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Brian Ahern <ahern_br...@msn.com > <mailto:ahern_br...@msn.com> > wrote: > > There are no room temperature superconductors. They are theoretically > impossible. > > ***Someone should tell the guys who are working towards that goal. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room-temperature_superconductor I think the problem with this sort of thinking, is that the assumption is to assume we need only be looking at essentially 'known' states of matter -- whilst totally overlooking the HUGE (essentially INFINITE) 'phase space' of possibilities which 'emergent' physical relations hand us. Someone is not 'thinking outside the box'... “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
