WD Hamilton, in "Innate Social Aptitudes of Man" wrote about the tendency of civilization to breed cultural creativity out of the gene pool for the simple and obvious reason that the benefits of invention do not go to the inventor's genetic correlates while the inventor bears the costs of invention to his evolutionary fitness.
This kind of phenomenon hits some inventors harder than others and in Papp's case, I can believe that if he had what he claimed to have, and was seeing the way inventors were being treated in the US, that he might have gone from despising the Soviet takeover of Hungary to despising civilization itself, and decided he would rather not feed the beast that is consuming its life-support. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...Why did he work so hard on an engine he could never give up, and share > his secret with the world desperate for it? > > And worse of all, when he knew he was going to die, three months before > his end, in a final act of ultimate selfishness, he flushed that precious > mix of noble gases from his engines into the heartless air to guard his > secret unto himself forever into eternity. > >
