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Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion

From Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion
Date 2015-09-22 16:18 -0500
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On 9/22/2015 3:56 PM, john wrote:
> Poutnik-
> How many equations did the Wright
> brothers have?
>

Don't confuse inventors and physicists.

Sometimes physicists make inventions. When they do, they don't always 
need equations. But when they're doing physics, they do. Always.

That's a problem, John. You're looking at physicists as though what they 
do should be tracked to practical advances, things that change the 
general quality of ordinary life. But there is a lot of work done by 
physicists that is just done to know how nature works and has absolutely 
no practical objective in mind. What practical goal do astronomers have? 
What about elementary particle physicists? Cosmologists?

For that matter, what about paleontologists? What do they do of 
practical value?

-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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  ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 13:03 -0700
    Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 15:33 -0500
      Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 19:51 -0700
        Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 23:12 -0500
          Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 06:54 -0500
            Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 06:09 -0700
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                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 18:08 +0200
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                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 18:29 +0200
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 09:33 -0700
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 18:45 +0200
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 12:27 -0500
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 10:46 -0700
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 15:48 -0500
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 15:56 -0700
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 19:53 -0500
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 19:42 -0700
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 06:56 +0200
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 06:43 -0700
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 16:11 +0200
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 13:56 -0700
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 16:18 -0500
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 14:29 -0700
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 16:46 -0500
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 15:50 -0700
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 18:52 -0500
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 17:08 -0700
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 19:49 -0500
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 01:10 -0400
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 06:46 -0500
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 01:14 -0400
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 09:56 +0200
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 19:04 +0200
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 12:24 -0500
                Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 17:23 +0200
              Re: ITER superconductor production nears completion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 09:17 -0500

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