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From: Gerard DVD Kleywegt gerard {- at -} XRAY {- dot -} BMC {- dot -} UU {- dot -} SE
Date: 2008-04-01

Dear James!

Initially I was shocked by the profound implications of your discovery! I
immmediately phoned my good friend, Sen. John McCain, to discuss the issue. As
you know, Sen. McCain was an aspiring physicist back in the 1920s, when he was
in his forties. He pointed me to a little known note (*) by Planck, Slater and
Oppenheimer that showed that Heisenberg's assertion is only true under very
special spatio-temporal circumstances. In layman's terms, it means that the
effect operates only on Earth, and only on a particular day of the year
(usually the 91st day, but occasionally the 92nd - I'll spare you the math).
So, provided that we don't study, use or publish any structures on those exact
space-time coordinates, I think we can safely continue with the established
practice.

Nevertheless, I will use all the leverage I have at the Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences to get the Nobel Committee for Physics to give your discovery in
quantum-crystallography the recognition that it deserves! You are the living
proof that not all Physics Nobel Laureates need to be brilliant youngsters!

With warm wishes,

--Gerard

(*) In the little-known journal: Ann. Phys. Relativ. Instrum. Lab., 1.

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