Re: FW: NORM (understanding nuclear power/ICRP)

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 11/21/2001 10:48:42 PM Mountain Standard Time, 

bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM writes:



<< It was said that some differential equations may have to be 

 replaced by common sense. >>



huh?  Common sense told Archimedes that a ball kept rolling until it stopped 

of its own accord.  The calculus was a formulation of  Newtons physics, 

including Newton's second law.  Differential calculus is calcuus of more than 

one dependent variable.



On a slightly less esoteric topic:  "common sense" told us for years that 

ulcers were caused by stress.  Experimental observation told us that they are 

caused by infection with a bacterium, helicobacter.  I could go on and on.  

Common sense is not always right, and very often wrong.



On another topic:  how do you RADSAFERS out there know what I know and what I 

don't know?  Actually you don't.  I assume that anyone who posts to this list 

knows what he or she is talking about 

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