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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (21327)5/5/1998 11:43:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>>Richard Feynmann ... did you know he deliberately shortened his
>>own life by exposure to a nuclear explosion, because his young
>>wife was dying? The cancer he got is because of that exposure

Christine,

I just cannot believe that this is fact! Could you please post your source? I'll go out on a limb and say that I don't believe that there is *any* documented case of an individual deliberately inducing cancer in his or her self as a result of "exposure to a nuclear explosion."

Richard Feynmann is a physicist. He should understand very well that cancer is a stochastic outcome from radiation exposure, not a determinstic one. What this means is that no one can know if cancer will result, no matter how high is the dose. And, if cancer does later develop after a radiation exposure, there is simply no way (given our current ignorance about cancer) to definitively prove that it was caused by the radiation.

David
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