From: H Veeder
This is an interesting bit of history that is new to me. It
seems Niépce de Saint-Victor investigated the phenomena of radioactivity 40
years before Henri Becquerel discovered it.Let's see: Niépce finds an "unknown" kind of radiation from the serendipitous exposure of his film to uranium chloride [sound familiar?] He sez... "this persistent activity cannot be due to phosphorescence, for it would not last so long...." Niépce mentions this in 1863 - but then there is his close association with Edmond Becquerel, who it turns out, was the father of Henri Becquerel, who would later be credited with the discovery of radioactivity, using almost the same serendipitous photographic film technique - and who won a share of the Nobel prize for its "discovery" in 1903, 40 years thereafter. One more prize given in error? Makes one think that someone who did not read the script closely wandered off-the-map by a few streets ... ala 13th Floor. ... almost too coincidental ... or is it a case of a bug-in-the SIM program? In the next reboot of this bizarre SIM, with all the improved code written in APL by renegade bots ... the cynical amongst us (or their offspring) should not be too surprised if the bug has not been fixed yet, due to inclusion of the RSA random number generator, and in that chapter (our collective future) the kid of a tireless skeptic, say granddaughter of Mary Yugo, wins the Nobel for the discovery of LENR in 2129... :-) Kokopelli rules...
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