The dons at St. John's of Cambridge, when P. A. M. Dirac was a
fellow there, decided to coin a new unit: The dirac. One dirac
represents the smallest measurable unit of conversation--so a silent
colleague might be described as ``only a 20-dirac chap.'' In Gottingen,
the same idea was expressed somewhat differently: ``There is no god,
and Dirac is his prophet.''
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