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From: bsafw@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS)
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Subject: Re: Regarding walking on hot coals; phoney baloney or what?
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Date: Sun, 15-Jul-84 19:53:09 EDT
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> From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP
> 
> In about 1976, Jearl Walker, who writes the Amateur Scientist column for
> Scientific American, wrote all about this in one of his colunms. He
> actually got up the nerve, and walked on coals, himself. He also suggested
> that, since it can be shown by physics that anyone can walk on coals, that
> people who get their Ph.d degrees in Physics ought to prove to the world
> that they believe in what they preach.  He suggested that the graduates be
> on one side of a bed of hot coals, and the person handing out the degrees
> be on the other side.  All the graduates would have to do to recieve
> their degrees is walk barefoot across the coals to get to guy handing them
> out.

Thank God I'm not in the physics department!

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