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Once long ago I described the difficulties of studying subatomic physics as being comparable to the process of learning auto mechanics by watching high-speed collisions of automobiles with a high-speed camera on a telescope.  It takes a lot of extremely violent collisions before you get a lucky hit gives you a decent view of what's inside the engine block as the pieces go flying.

 

I wonder how many more people would become strongly motivated students of auto mechanics if this was, in fact, the means you had to use to study the subject.

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Interesting typo: "spacegraft".  Probably means corruption involving space enterprises (if you thought international commerce was prone to payola and lapses in enforcement, just think about opportunities for same in interplanetary business), but it could also mean splicing pieces of planets or universes onto preexisting ones if you lean more toward more mind-bending concepts.

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