;Posted on 02/04/2015 5:54:09 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, February 4, 2015-- polymath
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
polymath [pol-ee-math]
noun
1. a person of great learning in several fields of study
Origin: 1615-25; < Greek polymathḗs learned, having learned much, equivalent to poly- poly- + -mathēs, adj. derivative of manthánein to learn
Related forms
polymathic, adjective
polymathy (po-lim -a-thee) noun
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
He has been a polymath all his life, plunging into one discipline after another.
He was deeply engaged with real-world technology, exotic and well traveled, and a polymath respected in so many circles.
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Very nice poem.
She’s just as bored as me.
It amazes me, the will of instict
My thought wandered to the polywell, a fusion alternative that is the outgrowth of Philo Farnsworth's fusion in a vacuum tube of the late 1950s. (Philo was a polymath, yes.)
The polywell concept combines plasma temperatures with cryogenic superconductors, a virtual ion trap formed by a magnetic grid so that the ions will avoid the physical forms. It is elegant in configuration and gives off a pretty blue glow.
What is there in that complex system of contrasts for a polymath not to love?
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Interesting post.
Well, I figure that solving the conundrum of fusion by building a globe-girdling tokamak does not solve the problem at all; it simply presents it as too big to be resolved through a rational degree of effort.
Producing fusion through either focus fusion or electrostatic inertial fusion, or even a laser approach, would be scalable to a real-world degree, and could be industrialized.
Dr. Robert Bussard wanted, really wanted, to be able to build a larger-scale “wiffle ball” (the electrostatic technique) which could be adapted to rocketry. He rather wistfully described some fantastic flight times such technology would provide.
And what is it that makes me conversant with these technological matters? Dude! I’m a poet!
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