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Old 18th May 2020, 8:32 am   #1509
Craig Sawyers
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Default Re: The Audiophoolery Thread.

Back in University days, we hosted a Quantum Electronics conference. There was a theory session that cleared most of the people out of the conference hall. Those that remained dozed or did a crossword.

But it was worth paying attention for a guy at the podium wading though viewgraphs densely populated with things like Green's functions (which I never understood). All of a sudden a voice piped up from one of the few people who understood this stuff:

"Excuse me - what about Grad's thirteen moment theorem?"

There followed what seemed an eternity of silence from the speaker, and then:

"You're absolutely right - this is actually total rubbish" picked up his viewgraphs and exited the stage.

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