1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/mochin July 2006
2 151 6_Mochin13_Rachel Thomas23_rachelt@MIDSOUTH.RR.COM30_Wed, 5 Jul 2006 16:56:24 -0500538_iso-8859-1 Dear Mochin Associates,<br><br>We have not had a posting to Mochin for a long time. So perhaps this will start a thread of conversation.<br><br>To refresh our memories here is the definition of the Mochin List:<br><br>MOCHIN<br>A forum for discussing ultimate reality and the nature and role of intelligence, especially as concerns the integration of higher and lower in the context of Jewish and metaphysical thought. While the Jewish context is formally required by Shamash, we are open to insights from all traditions. [...]44_5Jul200616:56:24-0500rachelt@MIDSOUTH.RR.COM
154 230 17_famous last words14_David S. Devor13_devor@USA.NET30_Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:47:33 +0200442_windows-1255 What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives<br>traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?<br>- The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825)<br><br>The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on<br>seeking it. . . . Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever<br>be associated in the consciousness of the patient.<br>- Dr. Alfred Velpeau (1839) French surgeon [...]34_6Jul200618:47:33+0200devor@USA.NET
385 270 21_Re: famous last words12_Elliot Pines18_EPines7186@AOL.COM28_Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:18:50 EDT558_US-ASCII A former professor of mine at Caltech, and early innovator in the field of<br>VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) design, Dr. Carver Mead, had long ago<br>shown that IC design below 1/10th micron minimum line width was physically<br>impossible. He proved this through very clear, straight-forward calculation based<br>upon well-established principles of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.<br>[Basically, that data states ('1's and '0's) could not be stabily held, and<br>that parallel lines would short-circuit through "quantum tunneling."] [...]37_6Jul200614:18:50EDTEPines7186@AOL.COM
656 23 8_rekindle11_Liam Kurmos27_quantum.leaf@GOOGLEMAIL.COM30_Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:49:57 +0100490_ISO-8859-1 this list seems to have gone out for sometime.<br>i think it needs a spark to bring it aflame.<br><br>liam<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>The MOCHIN mailing list is hosted by<br>Shamash: The Jewish Network, http://shamash.org,<br>a service of Hebrew College, which offers online courses and<br>an online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/<br><br>To unsubscribe email: MOCHIN-unsubscribe-request@SHAMASH.ORG48_7Jul200600:49:57+0100quantum.leaf@GOOGLEMAIL.COM