Nothing resonates for me but resonators

My faithful (to this point) readers may wish to inquire "where are these one-liners you promised on the first day?". My dodge is just that line was a teaser, meant to capture your interest, and that I will trot one out whenever needed to make a point in this rather rambling message. These do not need to be the traditional one-liners that professional joke-tellers have numbered so that one can simply call out a number, moving the audience to laugh as though you had told that joke.

You see, this entry was coined by yours truly to introduce his academic rant of today. He has long been scornful that expressions creep into the into the popular vernacular until we lose sight of their original respectable origin. Thus, "a point in time" migrated from the Space Program into Lawyer lies during the Watergate hearings. Now, many heads not utterly filled with profound ideas may observe one or two that seem pithy or otherwise memorable and say the ideas "resonate". Hence, on with the academic rant.

Yours truly considers his profession (with academic avocation of English language fanatic.) to be applied physics, also known as engineering. A resonator is a device which, once it is excited, may carry on its response for seconds. But one does not need to be a physicist to recognize a number of resonators in everyday life: a bell may ring for several seconds after it is struck; this is also true of a stretched string or a violin or guitar. And while it may take a few seconds to get the knack, you can get a tone from blowing across the neck of a soda bottle until you run out of air. Thus, it turned out that William Hansen at Stanford led the way to stringing more than 50,000 electromagnetic along a straight line 2 miles long to smash target atoms into tiny,tiny pieces. If that idea does not resonate, what in the world does??