New, clear explosive arguments

When you wave at crowd of absent friends and supporters on the road to cathedra, this wave has most chances to transform into solitary wave.

One may ask, how the solitary wave which is stable against decay is called? The answer is defect. A topological one, that is; but it is not the (cosmic) string wherewith the puppet could be controlled.

Michael Flynn (no, not that national security advisor whose career went kaboom after attempts to contact Russian ambassador even well before the damage in Ukraine was set in stone) wrote in The Journeyman: Through Madness Gap:

And so their descendants tried a second time and blew the gap to gravel, only this time they used what they called a ‘new, clear explosive,’ probably because it was a new way to clear the god from the gap. Or perhaps, as they say in the Mayco version of the tale, they had simply forgotten how to make cosmic strings.

Let’s hope that new, crystal clear explosive arguments won’t be started because of sudden discovery of the elephant in the White House Treaty Room, instead of the topological defect.

We have yet to discover how to make such defects without serious cognitive impairment as a side effect.

(By the way, being predisposed for sympathy to former Russian scientists in the West, I would definitely nominate Mr. Vilenkin, now of 75 years and quite healthily chugging forward, as a candidate for Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State.)