08-25-2014, 07:11 AM
hal wrote:
I like this use of 'optics' here - it says a lot in six letters.
Since you're not a chemist, I suppose you have no issues with the way 'organic' has been used in recent decades....
Oh, I do have issues. "Organic" is fairly down on the list, but it's on there, along with that loathsome Newage word "Biologic" .
None of these words have been tainted by the Body Politic as yet; any candidate describing their views as "Organic" would be hooted off the platform, and once accused of being a "Biologic", people would start reaching for their gas masks.
Eustace
(Yes, I'm not a Chemist, but I was one of the first to synthesize Helium Hydride in large quantities. It's really a quite simple process, (Actually it is horribly complex...), but until I had done it, nobody felt the need for any Helium Hydride. Al Ghiorso was quite taken with Helium Hydride, or rather with its Brutish Brother 3He3H, which is of interest to those studying Aneutronic Fusion.)
(I would like to let Al chirp in about the abuse his "Cold Fusion" has suffered, but Al went up and died on me a couple of years back. To put it simply- "Cold Fusion" is Fusion that happens just at or just below the Coulomb Barrier. A Quantum Mechanic could explain the details, I'm not one of those either, but it involves probabilities rather than certainties. It's certainly too complex a subject for two fraudulent Electrochemists from Utah, who stole Al's phrase, wrapped it in mumbo-jumbo, and set out to fleece the world.)