[kj] BTATS origins
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gathering@misera.net
Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:18:56 -0400
>From: Jelbod@aol.com
>
>In a message dated 30/07/03 23:40:51 Pacific Daylight Time,
>john_paul_owens@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > "Another weak point is the interpretation of the quotation from the
>Indian
> > scripture Bhagavad-Gita which Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom
> > bomb, reportedly used after witnessing the first atomic blast.
>Originally,
> > the quote meant the universe is infinitely diverse, and if a thousand
>suns
> > flash in the sky at the same time, it may reflect a close picture of the
> > spirit of the infinity of the universe, which is difficult to
>comprehend.
> > According to the book, "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" by Robert
>Jungk,
> > Oppenheimer did quote the metaphor of a thousand suns. "Yet, when the
> > sinister and gigantic cloud rose up in the far distance over Point Zero,
>he
> > was reminded of another line from that source: I am become Death, the
> > shatterer." The first part of the quote is a kind of philosophical view
>of
> > the mystery of the universe that a physicist can interpret as a version
>of
> > the Heisenberg principle of the dynamics of the observer and the
>observed;
> > the second part is the practical destructive aspect of the scientific
> > discovery."
> >
> BLIMEY!
>
> Jel
puts that whole nichola's tits thing in perspective, doesn't it?
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