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Old 12-March-2008, 03:49 AM
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Originally Posted by steve000 View Post
I'd say decades is not a very long time..
And Does that mean the the fact was immovable or was not immovable?
The golden age of inorganic chemistry ran from the late 19th century to about 1940. Thousands of labs, millions of manhours; the techniques necessary to create reactions with inert elements existed for a long time before it occurred to anyone to try it. This is a textbook case of textbooked myopia.

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Whatever ever the facts of nature are they have to point in one immovable direction...whether they do or not...
Are you saying I should follow that view?
I'm missing something here. One fact about nature is that it appears to be directionless.
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