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Very funny! Love this. I believe that as Donald Neinstein reduces his mass, his lies increase exponentially. We are witnessing the death of a star. Years ago DT was a fairly normal yellow star, but as his H2 started to run out, he expanded into a red-orange (note tie and skin color) giant, sucking up half the planets. But as his red hot core loses heat, he is becoming a white supremacist dwarf. I am confident that he did not start as a massive star (8 times Sol) because then we would be doomed, since he would turn into first, a supernova and then either a neutron star, or worse a black hole where everything including lies would be pulled in by gravity, well I guess that would be a good thing.

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🤣

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Merci, Stephanie. I appreciate the props and your further contributions to the theory.

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Absolutely brilliant! :-) I loved this piece!

By the way, my father was a long time reader of Dr Einstein's work as it came out. He was a world class photographer, and also a (strictly amateur) reader of particle physics and astrophysics. (we used to look at stars through his Questar in the back yard when we were growing up. My father's portrait photograph of Dr Einstein with Einstein's sister Maya (I do not know of any other photograph of them together) hangs in a museum in Philadelphia. I have the original of this picture of Dr Einstein. There is a funny story connected with it which I can relate if you are interested.

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Thanks for the props, Kate. ;-)

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Keep up the good work :-)

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Now that is a claim to fame! I’m sure you and your dad were proud.

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Very cool. My father-in-law went to Princeton, and would see Einstein around campus.

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Great minds think alike but brilliant minds think outside the box.

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I do think, whenever I consider "outside the box" concept, of a cartoon: a tall thin man stands beside a square container near his feet, looking down. A small, innocent kitten is looking up at him. The man says: "And never, never think outside the box!"

:-)

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Love it!

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Thanks. Me too. I saw it years ago, and it keeps on making me smile.

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Your father-in-law must have found it terrific to have been right there at that moment in time. Wow!

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I see what you did there. :-) Fortunately, Stephanie's FIL was entangled in quantum physics.

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Ha Ha, not Cliff! It was right after WWII. He was actually an English major,. His roommate was the son of the president of Kodak. They married two sisters, who were daughters of an affluent banker in Rochester NY, and he ended up being a "Mad Man" in New York City. Hubby grew up in south western CT. I love people's stories, like about Kate's father, being a world class photographer. It is what keeps me sane and makes the world go round.

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People stories are educational nuggets that we ignore at our peril.

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Smallest of Worlds! My cousin Philip Condax was curator of Technology for George Eastman House. His father, my uncle Louis Condax, was an inventor for Kodak. He invented the critical step in the Dye Transfer process that made color photography stable enough for the average person to use, and led to Technicolor. I spent time in Rochester and nearly married a (then young) man there. I'll bet your husband knows some of the same people. If we are same vintage, may even know some of the same people in NYC (lived and worked there for 15 years :-)

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Wow pretty cool. 67 years, had kids late, my son graduated from U of Rochester in 2014, and just moved back from there, so we know Rochester well. A few of Jim's relatives are still there, but not many, his Uncle Tom Hargrave (president's son) is really all that is left and he turned 100. His mother knew lots of folks but she died in 2021. Rochester fell on tough times, when Xerox and Kodak struggled, but the University kept them going, and it is a very pleasant city. Son wanted to get back to the east coast. Love to chat more.. Thanks Wayne for letting us chat.

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She could have jumped -- er-- ship.

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I am always interested in funny stories. Some of my best work is purloined. 😬

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Aug 29Liked by Wayne

One can also theorize that in order to become less massive, (dT) would need to be a gaseous entity, massive in size, not density, and composed of noxious fumes, attributing to the mounting, inescapable, orbital decay. In addition, one can surmise that the superheating of the (dT) gas cloud, caused by (Vl) could create ultra-heated, (Vl)-induced flares, to such a degree, and infused with intolerable, offensive, noxiousness, that they can stun and render inactive and disengaged, any orbital matter within the active region, which may explain the random escape of orbital objects.

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Aug 29Liked by Wayne

Brilliant! Bravo Wayne👏🏻

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Thanks Michelle. I’m glad you enjoyed it. I do my best to make readers laugh, cry, groan or roll their eyes but not do nothing.

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Aug 29Liked by Wayne

You’re welcome! Thank you for the cleverness & wit🙂

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I do, which keeps me in good company since he comprehends little.

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