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

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.

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.

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.

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

  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

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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
<snipped nonsense from Russia Today>
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Bill Sloman, Sydney