Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey has served in Congress for a decade, but he’s not your average politico. The physicist is a five-time Jeopardy champion, an inventor of a solar collector, an arms-control expert and a former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. He likes to pop into science conferences so that he can drop terms like “impedance matching” and not catch weird stares.
first of all, anyone who really did the things you purport won't take their time to tell off this guy, who is a major government jackoff by the way. He is an annoyance that should be ignored. Secondly, if you really are the guy you say you are, don't you think that this quantum mechanics things is a workaround to solve problems that they couldn't solve using the basic model of protons, neutrons and electrons? I think Einstien got it it right and didn't focus on semantics, he focused on simplicity in design and it turned out he was proven right (when technology caught up and real world observation became possible). I think new science is trying to find a shortcut. I know he was thinking about quarks before he died but I believe the basics he worked off of were ignored when 'new wave' stuff came along. There is still a lot of good work that may spread some light on the new discoveries that have come to pass. It was cut short, and everyone has got to remember he got farther going pros, eles and nuets than anyone has. We still don't understand everything about these basic building blocks, yet we rush forward to quarks. Something important will be missed! Your thoughts? Mike
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