[ale] Am I the only one that is laughing out load at this question?

[Mike Harrison]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Greg Freemyer wrote:

>>  As for a), the embarrassing real source of a childhood nickname "Muon"
>>  which I spell as "Meuon" as a unique (now less so) login/moniker
>>  is from when I corrected, and insisted I was correct when my high school
>>  science teacher said atoms were made of 'Protons Neutrons and Electrons'
>>  and I started in with all the other sub-atomic particles, spins, and
>>  half-lives..
>
> I thought Muons, etc. were short-lived free particles.  ie. Not in
> atoms.  I could be wrong.


They are, but I was dealing with a science teacher that barely kept one 
chapter ahead in the book.. almost 30 years ago. I also was ranting then 
about Neutrinos and other stuff. It's really only so memorable to me 
because it's when I really grok'd that most teachers merely occupied 
space and time. I had some good teachers, but they were few.

Probably like most of the people on this list, we really taught ourselves
in spite of an educational system. College might have been better had I 
gone to a real one, but I entered the USAF to get an education and start 
my own life.

Why do I love Linux? Because I can take it apart, play with it.. learn 
from it, learn from the people whome have made it what it is.