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To: dougSF30 who wrote (228564)	3/20/2007 5:07:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

1 - You don't have to be a engineer to note that 100 nm of oxide are not going to greatly add to the thermal resistance of a 775 micron (775000 nm or almost a millimeter) thick cpu core. Your talking about the size of a virus compared to the size of something large enough to be easily visible to the unaided eye. 2 - Even if the subject was so complex that only advanced experts could understand it, someone else's lack of expertise wouldn't be a logical reason to conclude that they where wrong, only that you can't accept their conclusion as definitive.