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RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)
Subject:RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom) From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:29:31 -0400
But you don't need to know the reality to know what the formula represents.
It happens to represent a whole bunch of e because c is such a big number.
> No. The equation is a representation of reality.
But until the successful test at Los Alamos, it wasn't reality, so until
July 16, 1945, it was only a concept.
John Posada
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"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream
of things that never were, and ask why not?"
-----Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign
>
> Of course it matters. The equation is not one in which you can simply
> substitute all items labeled by the letters used in it.
>
>
> The formula represents a
> > value...the fact that the elements of the formula stand for
> something is
> > immaterial...what only matters is that in combination, the
> values work out
> > mathematically.
> >
>
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