¶ Solid State
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Solid State:
"One of the words we use a great deal is solid. Infact, in quite modern physics in relation to defense and so forth, we have solid state physics. It is a very strange phrase for the physicists to use because they have discovered that there is nothing solid. I don’t know why they insist on using the words, but it seems to be good for bureaucracy to have a solid state, and so you can handle it academically that way, but let’s not get fooled becausewe haven’t found anything solid. . . "
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #3, p. 109. 5 Jul’62
