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Lawrence Turner
Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Chair, Mathematics and Physical Sciences Department
Southwestern Adventist University
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Friday, 3 Sep 10
julian day:
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sun rise: 7:03a, set: 7:49p
moon: 24.2 days
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Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, dies age 59, 1658
Malcolm Campbell is first to drive an automobile over 300 mph—at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, 1935
National Football League coach Vince Lombardi dies, age 57, 1970
Lawrence Turner is awarded the Ph.D. (astrophysics), 1971
Viking 2 lands on Mars, 1976
eBay launched, 1995
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H2O + NH3 + C2H5 + PDQ + U235
and a pinch of salt
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Schedule
He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Pettibone Poole
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Larry and Cathy
Do we have it backwards? Perhaps God didn't create the Sabbath as a memorial to creation. Perhaps the creation of the world is a memorial to the most central creative act—the Sabbath!
L. Turner
High energy particle physics and cosmology—a marriage made in the heavens.
Don't Panic
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On-campus courses
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Sanders Pierce
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Distance Education courses
Science provides us with a wonderful narrative as to how [existence] may happen, but theology addresses the meaning of the narrative.
Denis Alexander
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Southwestern Adventist University
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
John Kemeny
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Summer Research
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Ralph Gerard
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A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.
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In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
Warren Eckstein
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Written Stuff
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee... that will do them in.
Bradley's Bromide
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Useful Stuff
A lottery is a tax for people who are math illiterate.
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W 97° 19′ 41.0″
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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
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Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Southwestern Adventist University
Keene, TX 76059
phone: (817) 202-6708
fax: (817) 202-6744
e-mail: turner@swau.edu
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743,719,793,040
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22 Aug 10
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