> The actual question (one of those burning issues of cosmic
> import to the medieval church scholars) was whether angels were corporeal;
> one clever person noted that if they were incorporeal, they could all dance
> on the head of a pin at the same time, and that image came to stand for the
> debate -- and then got remembered long after the debate itself was forgotten
> (and I've even forgotten the answer...).

Yup, I've heard that, too.  It was clearly something of a medieval
equvalent to the recent/current debate in the particle physics
community over whether neutrinos have a rest mass :-)

					- Bill