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To: dinoparty
“We were standing on some huge rocks, where we could see out over this valley and hear the falls, when we realized partition numbers are fractal,” Ono says. “We both just started laughing.”

Um. OK.


What tha hell? Makes them sound like a couple of stoners.
9 posted on 01/20/2011 7:56:15 AM PST by youngidiot
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To: youngidiot

There are few things that produce a bigger high than discovering/knowing something no one else on earth knows.


12 posted on 01/20/2011 8:02:09 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 730 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: youngidiot
What tha hell? Makes them sound like a couple of stoners.

I have a relative who works on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He doesn't live on planet earth. Totally "out there" dude. He's so damn smart that he comes across as mildly impaired.

15 posted on 01/20/2011 8:18:19 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: youngidiot
What tha hell? Makes them sound like a couple of stoners.

Yes, in a way ... there's something intoxicating about finding a relatively simple answer to a big question. Laughter is a common response.

50 posted on 01/24/2011 9:00:23 PM PST by r9etb
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