Thomas Campbell
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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Well, then it would produce usually a radioactive element.
You have a lot of elements that if you add little parts to them, they make isotopes and other things, and then they usually decay.
So that was the kind of physics that I was doing, low-energy physics.
And it was an old...
Van de Graaff accelerator.
And when that thing was running, you took data.
You didn't say, well, that's enough for today.
We'll come back and do some more tomorrow.
When that thing was running, you took data.
And if that meant you had to stay up two, three days in a row, well, you'd beg for help from the other graduate students.
They usually would help some.
But it was your experiment.
You had to kind of be there most of the time.
You could lie down, you know, catch a nap here and there.
So I was going into the physics department, and this big bulletin board thing was set up, and it said, Transcendental Meditation.
And it gave all this thing, lower your blood pressure, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, you know, relaxation and so on.
And on the bottom line was, get by with less sleep.
I said, good.
That's what I need.
I need that.
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