Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 06 May 1999 18:51:31 -0400

In message <3731A081.C8CFAE82@radix.net>, James Michael Keller writes:
+-----
| Even Einstein dismissed out of hand both the big bang theory, and the entire
| field of quantum physics - he then spent his remaining years pursuing a dead
| end
| trying to prove the steady state universe.
|
| Even "gods" can get it wrong.
+--->8

Perhaps not an ideal comparison, as it appears the cosmological constant and
associated steady-state theorizing have come back from the dead. See
http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw95.html for an article and references.

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