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Old 01-09-2008, 02:25 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by evman150 View Post
You cannot ascribe properties to things unable to have those properties ascribed to them. You cannot make the colour red "smell like vinegar". You cannot give smell to something unable to be ascribed a smell. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Unless, of course, you happen to suffer from synesthesia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia ] as some people theorise Kandinsky did.



As for big exciting sciencey stuff, I'm seriously pumped about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN coming online this year. Planet-eating black hole here we come!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
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