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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] How to build a happier brain<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Einstein must have felt great on the day he discovered General Relativity, but it took him 10 years and was such hard work that he lost 40 pounds and it nearly killed him<span style='color:#1F497D'>… John Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>I should say so. Since he had already discovered ten years previously that E=MC^2, those 40 pounds mass would be the equivalent of about 1.6 quintillion joules, or the energy of about 400 million tons of TNT. Edward Teller was a child of 8 years at the time Einstein discovered General Relativity, surely in his early intellectually formative years. Teller is thought to have coined the term “mega-death.” By Teller’s calculus that 40 pounds of mass lost by Einstein, if converted to energy and effectively distributed, would produce approximately 2000 mega-deaths, which is not far off from the population of the world at that time. Einstein’s 40 pounds could have destroyed humanity down to nearly the last radioactive gasp, so it is no wonder it nearly slew him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Someone made a comment here about Teller being the inspiration for Kubric’s Dr. Strangelove. The notion was that Teller must have been completely insane to promote the development of a hydrogen bomb, when the radioactive ash from the Uranium and Plutonium bombs had scarcely settled, but it occurred to me that he was not only sane, he was right. When Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, he thought it would end all war, because it would just be too dangerous; wrong. The same argument was made with the atom bomb, but wrong again, for note that it was used a second time. But eventually a bomb too large to ever use was invented, Teller’s horrifying brain child, the mega-death inducing hydrogen bomb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Now, what was it we were discussing? Oh yes, how to build a happier brain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>