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Re: The Americans are gonna destroy the Earth!!
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Tue, 12 Oct 1999 06:36:26 GMT
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Are the Americans gonna destroy the Earth?
Heavens, no. How silly.
Now go back to sleep. Want a Big Mac?
> I wonder: if the collision of two elementary charged particles generates a
> huge amount of energy within a tiny space, what would happen if someone just
> happened to be sitting in the collision chamber at the instant of collision?
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> - Would he or she instantiate a new and sentient parallel universe,
> irrationally bent upon building an accelerator which could collide spamcake
> particles?
I don't know. I feel like a strangelet already.
> - Would they go out in a shower of sparks and huge bouts of flame?
Depending on the day, I already do.
> - Would the intense electrical and magnetic fields simply kill them first?
Heavens, that would make life difficult.
> - Could this be used as a murder weapon in an Asimov-esque mystery? "There's
> nothing here but this tiny pile of highly-charged dark matter, Sarge." "Yes
> but what's this...? It has an autographed photo of Hari Seldon and a smudge
> of lipstick on its collar!"
It kind of gives "tall, dark, and handsome" a new meaning.
> > Strange quarks are cool.
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> And strange quirks are called "undocumented features". :-P
Or possibly "character," the sort that's built by being set on fire, etc.
LFB.
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