> I still don't understand how this myth that they wrote Edge from scratch even came to be.
Because people confuse Microsoft marketing fluff with reality?
"Microsoft Edge is built from the ground up to improve productivity, to be more secure, and to correctly, quickly and reliably render Web pages. While Microsoft Edge is the default browser for Windows 10 and is the best fit for most users, some enterprise customers have line-of-business applications built specifically for older Web technologies, which require Internet Explorer 11." [0]
"We designed Microsoft Edge from the ground up to prioritize power efficiency and deliver more battery life" [1]
"Microsoft Edge is designed from the ground up to provide a modern, interoperable, and secure browsing experience"[2]
Some of the sources used in this article are not at all of the quality I have come to expect from the NY Times. Sources like the Daily Mail and "www.searchautoparts.com".
The backdrop (and reason) for this smuggling operation was the 1986 US.-Japan semiconductor trade agreement. A fascinating read can be found here (pdf):
The cell chemistry only plays an indirect role here (neither zinc nor lithium are terribly healthy in a child's body I guess).
The lithium batteries are thrown away with a fair bit of energy remaining: Internal resistance will go up too far to be useful to power something, but the cell can still electrolize when inside the body.
Zinc-air primaries on the other hand tend to be completely empty when removed from the hearing aid; they have a really nice flat discharge profile.
At the moment the limiting factor is energy -- The energies required to create these collisions (and hence, the possibility of these new particles) is enormous. In a way that's the only way the LHC exisists; to create higher energy collisions than before.
As for computing values: It's nice to have a theory, but it's nicer still to have it confirmed/falsified by expermiment.
I respectfully disagree.
1) The Manhattan project is not comparable in scope: Both the UK and France developed nuclear weapons on their own.
2) This is not a European project per se. Most of the developed nations in the world contribute, and as such this is very much a project for and by humanity itself.
