Nobel Prize winner and Inventor of the Internet, Al Gore, continues to mystify the scientific community with his D in a Harvard undergraduate course entitled Physics Chemistry Calculus Man’s Place in Nature. A course fondly known at my undergraduate alma mater as “Rocks for Jocks”:
[Washington Post] For all of Gore’s later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man’s Place in Nature) [and] avoided all courses in mathematics and logic throughout college…
Which is why Former Next President Gore just resettled geophysics:
People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees…
Apparently, Professor Gore has discovered that the core of the Earth is a thermonuclear plasma, far, far hotter than the surface of the Sun (~ 6000°K).
Now we know why Al Gore got a D in Rocks for Jocks. The D was for “Dazzling”.
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