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From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
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Subject: Re: Impossibilities (FTL travel)
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Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 16:12:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 16:12:17 1986
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In article <1058@mmm.UUCP> cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
>In article <3454@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> ANDY%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU writes:
>
>>quantum shells.  That's my pet theory as a layman, anyway.
>
>One of the cardinal rules of scientific investigation is: don't make
>pets of theories.
>--
>(___)						Andre Guirard


   Excellent point!

Not to mention that andy%maine's pet *theory* is, in fact,
his pet *wild speculation*.

   The point reminds me of a truism attributed to Einstein:

	The most important tool of the theoretical physicist
	is a wastebasket.

			Al Algustyniak