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The popularity of lie-detector tests in the United States is distressing and dangerous. Their use by the federal government has set a bad example to other employers.
Failure so far to detect proton decay is not explained by the suggestion that intra-nuclear collisions prevent it. But there is a quantum version of Zeno's paradox to be resolved.
