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Old 04-19-2005, 03:21 PM   #2963
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strategic bombing

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
He's not a blogger, you dope. He's a famous physicist. Per Wikipedia:
  • Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. He worked as an analyst for the British Bomber Command during World War II; after the war, he moved to Princeton. In 1957, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

    In the years following the war, Dyson was responsible for demonstrating the equivalence of the two formulations of quantum electrodynamics which existed at the time - Richard Feynman's path integral formulation and the variational methods developed by Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (Dyson operator).

    From 1957 to 1961 he worked on the Orion Project, which proposed the possibility of space-flight using nuclear propulsion: a prototype was demonstrated using conventional explosives, but a treaty banning the use of nuclear weapons in space caused the project to be abandoned.
So then he's not the vacuum cleaner guy?
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