From: Thomas Faller <tomfal@TR6.WES.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:      Re: Russia's OPERATIONAL Starwars Defense System
Message-ID: <9304071725.AA14497@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
Date:         Wed, 7 Apr 1993 09:54:47 CDT
Peter Olson asks:

>...how would you make a neutron beam?

Well, first you put a charge on the neutron....    ;-)  ;-)



Now for the news:

ROBERT E. MCELWAINE ACCEPTS NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS

Stockholm(UPI) - American physicist Robert E. McElwaine accepted the Nobel
Prize for Physics today in a ceremony held in Stockholm, Sweeden. The Nobel
Prize, first awarded in 1901, is granted to outstanding scientists in their
field. The recipient of the prize is determined by the Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences, and each prize includes a gold medal, a diploma, and a cash
award of $700,000. McElwaine joins such notable scientists as Phillip E.A.
Lenard, Nils G. Dalen and Sin-Itero Tomonaga.
McElwaine, who holds a Bachelor's degree in physics, received the award for
his work in the non-traditional field of physics education. Physics educators
and teachers in colleges and universities worldwide noticed an upswing in
physics grades and the number of students entering physics shortly after
McElwaine began posting a series of informational letters to the Internet,
a communications medium between computers which spans the globe.
The postings were mainly nonsense, amalgams of crank science, medieval
philosophy and wish fulfillment, but their effect on their readers was to
inspire detailed refutations which put students in close contact with their
studies for days at a time, and encouraged investigations into fields far
from traditional subject matter. The result, in universities around the
world, was a more thorough understanding of basic physics, a renewed respect
for the physical sciences among other students, and increased enrollment in
physics degree programs.

The practical result of this upsurge in physics was the formulation of a new
working method in basic physics. Dubbed, "The Emperor's Paradigm", it takes
physics out of the research laboratory and into the lives of the everyday
person. Combined with the sciences of astronomy, chemistry and biology,
it is presented as "Real world Learning" to school children as early as
second grade in over 150 countries now. Increased adult education programs
have reached millions who had considered science education long past in
primary school. It is expected that by the year 2010, 97% of the world's
population will be science literate.

A rash of previously unimagineable inventions follows on the heels of this
enlightenment. The Neutron-beam food processor and the hydro-optical gravity
drive are already changing the face of organised sports and medical science,
spurred by successes with transmutation of viruses to non-dairy sweeteners
is preparing to face the challenge of herpes.

Dr. Lars E. Larsenn, chairman of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
commented, "It is fitting that we honor McElwaine with the last of the Nobel
Prizes. We feel that with physics becoming so well integrated into society,
such incentives of fame and money will no longer be necessary as incentives
to do science except to the slow and doltish among us, and so the prizes are
being discontinued, with the money to go to a special fund which will help
those with a Bachelor's degree get something more meaningful."

Mr. McElwaine was unavailable for comment.




;-)  ;-)  ;-)

Tom Faller