[W]ounds immedicable / Ranckle, and feſter, and gangrene, / To black mortification.

If you walk away from this offer you will live to regret it.

an asteroid between one and three kilometers wide had slammed into the ground at fifteen klicks per second.

Such assertions are motivated by the desire to leave the independent-particle model in place as the central paradigm in nuclear theory, but they inadvertently push theoretical nuclear physics in the direction of counting angels on pinheads: “Sure they’re there! It’s just that there aren’t any observable implications of their celestial presence!”