From: Paul Curtayne (niche at domain tinet.ie)
Date: Thu 06 May 1999 - 17:53:33 IST
Robert Kelly wrote:
> > Jaz I would not trust for anything you want to keep. In fact I
> > wouldn't
> > trust anything that's magnetic and spinning.
> >
> > magnetic and spinning, isn't that a *lot* of things inc. hard
disks?
> > :-) do you mean magnetic spinning and removable?
>
> Don't forget that electrons are magnetic and spinning, to (sort of).
>
>
good point, though be aware that I was 9 months away from a Ph.D. in
theoretical physics, and I could spend quite a while explaining that
electrons have spin but aren't spinning if I was provoked at a party
- it's been a while since I bored anyone with physics :-)
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