Kathy Maddock
Ellingson
In 1969, the Congressional Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy held a hearing at which the physicist Robert Wilson
was called to testify. Wilson, who had served as the chief of
experimental nuclear physics for the Manhattan Project, was at that
point the head of CERN’s main
rival, Fermilab, and in charge of $250 million that Congress had
recently allocated for the lab to build a new collider. Senator
John Pastore, of Rhode Island, wanted to know the rationale behind
a government expenditure of that size. Did the collider have
anything to do with promoting “the security of the
country”?
WILSON: No sir, I
don’t believe so.
PASTORE: Nothing
at all?
WILSON: Nothing at all.
PASTORE: It has no value in
that respect?
WILSON: It only has to do
with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of
men, our love of culture. . . . It has to do with are we good
painters, good sculptors, great poets. I mean all the things we
really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. . . . It
has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to
make it worth defending.
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You can't escape
from the laws now, baby, of love and gravity.
~ Dixie Chicks
If I Fall You're Going Down With
Me
1999, Sony
Records
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Finally finished my Pygmy kayak!
GRADES UPDATED SEPTEMBER 30,
2008
The beginning of the year is a transition time for most
students. Those who are struggling will be forgiven low
grades for the beginning of the semester. Students who
struggle need to do more work and come in for help during tap or
after school.
Shorecrest phone number: (206) 361-4286
kathy.ellingson@shorelineschools.org
08 - 09 schedule:
Period 1 Honors Physical Science
Period 2 Prep
Period 3 Honors Physical Science
Period 4 Physics
Period 5 Physics
Period 6 AP Physics
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