A great quote from Aug. 1898 'Nature'

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R.L. — 9/22/2004 6:19:45 AM (archived)

â€œPerhaps astronomy, the oldest yet most juvenile of sciences, has
still a few surprises in store for usâ€

Arthur Schuester, Nature, August 1898

IT IS ONE OF THE LAST LINES OF A LETTER TO THE EDITOR SPECULATING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF ANTI-MATTER... IN 1898!!!

Anyone that has access to that issue of Nature should look it up- it is possibly one of the creepiest letters to the editor I have ever read... Arthur extrapolated that since there was positive and negative magnitism and electricity there might be 'anti-matter'... he even hypothesized that comet tails were due to antimatter being repelled by the sun...

I contacted the historian for the physics department at Manchester University, he told me Arthur did live to see Dirac come up with theoretical evidence of anti-matter.

I hope to get a copy of that letter soon, I will try to post it here... it is inspiring...

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Seeing into the future... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 5:08:53 AM
- LOL. I would hate to send e-mail on that thing. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/22/2004 5:53:58 PM
- What is with the wheel. - REB - 9/22/2004 12:05:20 PM
  - Wow, I'm been at those controls - Art Martin - 9/22/2004 3:27:48 PM
    - Nautilus? - Peter Bruener - 9/23/2004 6:54:51 AM
      - USS Snook - Art Martin - 9/23/2004 4:07:49 PM
        
        re: USS Snook controls - Tom Brosz - 9/24/2004 5:48:11 AM
        
        er Tom. That's me with the guitar. - Art Martin - 9/24/2004 10:48:45 PM
        
        Oh really? ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/26/2004 10:26:23 PM
        
        Interesting. Take a look at the two pictures. - REB - 9/24/2004 2:12:05 PM
        
        Could be. - Tom Brosz - 9/26/2004 10:31:58 PM
        
        re: USS Snook - REB - 9/23/2004 4:15:54 PM
    - Ahhh!...And speaking of the future... - Jacob Samorodin - 9/22/2004 6:01:17 PM
      - thread on offtop about this (n/t) - alcaray - 9/22/2004 9:11:10 PM
- A great quote from Aug. 1898 'Nature' - R.L. - 9/22/2004 6:19:45 AM
- Tom, if you could supply a reference for this picture... - R.L. - 9/22/2004 5:49:39 AM
  - re: reference for this picture... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 3:44:27 PM
    - Ha! While I was in getting coffee, Art nailed it. Blogosphere at work! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 3:45:41 PM
      - "Blogosphere at work", yeah, misrepresenting the facts apparently, but then, that's what its good at... - R.L. - 9/22/2004 6:03:45 PM
        
        Every source of information screws up - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 10:53:12 PM
        
        Ah, so you then understand CBS's gaffe? (n/t) - R.L. - 9/23/2004 8:12:16 AM
      - Think the sub panel was just in the background to their intended object. - Art Martin - 9/22/2004 4:23:42 PM

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