Re: OT: CERN cuts ties with Russia , will expel hundreds of scientists by December

On a sunny day (Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:03:02 +1000) it happened Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vcmcm4$1j9bp$1@dont-email.me>:

On 21/09/2024 7:52 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:51:34 +1000) it happened Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vcltuj$1h8e9$1@dont-email.me>:
 

On 21/09/2024 4:53 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December:
   https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/cern-will-expel-hundreds-of-russia-affiliated-scientists-by-december/
    But Geneva-based organization will retain ties with Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
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So maybe then Russia will get some more usable stuff than CERN ever did
CERN will still work as bomb shelters though.

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CERN does fundamental rather than applied research - not a distinction
that Jan Panteltje has the wit to understand.

 
Dear slow-man script
Please have you creat-tor remove the part that insults every-body
doing so would improve your status as a humming bean clone.

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I don't insult everybody - I just insult ignorant clowns like you, and
it's incidental to the business of pointing out that they have got stuff
wrong. If you were a slightly less ignorant clown you'd be aware that
copying John Larkin's insults isn't a winning strategy.
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Of course the research that lead to the atomic bomb was just as
fundamental, and few people expected that it would be of any practical use.

 
What did lead to the a-bomb was Curie and a room sized lab
and some thinking by Enrico Fermi.

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That does miss out quite a lot. Lise Meitner was the first to recognise
that fission was going on.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner

Some read, lots of politics..
The fishicks is interesting though.

  The Italien Navigator Has Landed:
   https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fermi-produces-the-first-nuclear-chain-reaction
All in small labs to start with

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Strictly speaking, Fermi didn't quite get to a self-sustaining chain
reaction in the University of Chicago squash court - which wasn't a
small room - though he did get pretty close, and quite close enough to
justify the next steps.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
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<snipped nonsense from Russia Today>

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