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Genius Sees The Answer Before The Question.

All History Teaches Us That These Questions That We Think The Pressing Ones Will Be Transmuted Before They Are Answered, That They Will Be Replaced By Others, And That The Very Process Of Discovery Will Shatter The Concepts That We Today Use To Describe Our Puzzlement.

Bertrand Russell Had Given A Talk On The Then New Quantum Mechanics, Of Whose Wonders He Was Most Appreciative. He Spoke Hard And Earnestly In The New Lecture Hall. And When He Was Done, Professor Whitehead, Who Presided, Thanked Him For His Efforts, And Not Least For 'leaving The Vast Darkness Of The Subject Unobscured'.

Now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds. (quoting The Bhagavad-gita After Witnessing The First Nuclear Explosion.)

When All Thermonuclear Sources Of Energy Are Exhausted A Sufficiently Heavy Star Will Collapse. Unless Fission Due To Rotation, The Radiation Of Mass, Or The Blowing Off Of Mass By Radiation, Reduce The Star's Mass To The Order Of That Of The Sun, This Contraction Will Continue Indefinitely.