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Old 25th Nov 2019, 2:49 pm   #32
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Default Re: Availability of TV valves for Nixie Clock.

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Originally Posted by Argus25 View Post

You may be aware that Stephen Hawking was warned that: "for every equation in his book, the readership would be halved" , he was only prepared to drop one equation.

I guess part of being a good scientific communicator is that you can do it successfully without the supporting equations, but you have them up your sleeve, if push comes to shove.

Haha when I read this and a last few posts and this one in particular I suddenly thought of Professor Brian Cox and Helicopters flying around his head.


http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/profes...video-mrweebl/


Don't get me wrong I enjoy such things as the infinite monkey cage but as far as removing maths Brians got that off to a tee!


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