Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / February 2006

Naturally occurring atomic nuclei get as large as about atomic mass 250.  
By striking nuclei against each other, however, physicists can sometimes
make them amalgamate for a fleeting moment into something like a
supernucleus, with atomic weight around 500.  One thing such a
supernucleus has is an extremely strong electric field.  And physicists
were hoping that in this way they could make a field strong enough to
produce positrons out of the vacuum  -  or, as some of them put it, to
produce positrons by ionizing space-time itself.
...
Decades ago, as part of his prediction of the existence of anti-matter,
the late P. A. M. Dirac postulated that the vacuum, which physicists
[well, some physicists anyway] regard as the zero energy level devoid of
all matter and energy, actually contains a sea of virtual
electron-positron pairs, which can be pulled into actual existence by
the proper forces.
  - D. E. Thomsen, Science News, May 10, 1986

gendo: a way of thinking...  
    language as a path to liberation...

.unconscious, erroneous assumptions imposed upon our thinking
    by the structure of the language (english) running in our
    skulls are responsible for most of what is wrong with the
    world in both the personal and planetary domains

when:  this saturday afternoon, between 3 and 5
where: the cafe at Borders Books (91 at Bloomfield in Cerritos)

.look for the black and red gendo logo on my dark blue notebook
    on the table

heron

ps
.this will be the last gathering for a short while
.Borders is closing and moving to a new location nearby, but
    the space may not be appropriate for our meetings
.as soon as a new venue has been secured, the meetings will
    resume
.i will continue to post the quotes

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