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Re: Darn those definitions (was: The new Super Car)
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Thu, 12 Aug 1999 21:20:23 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Kevin Baker writes:
> Like I said, everything is compressible, with the probable exception of the
> stuff in a black hole. Even the exclusion principle (the law that controls
> elecron 'orbits' round an atom) is reconed to be overcome by sufficient force
> (gravity), and atoms then collapse! - Read "A Brief History Of Time" - loads
> of interesting (but useless?) facts for us pedantic engineers.
Do you believe in photons? They aren't compressible. How about neutrinos and
gravitons? Any massless particle that passes through matter without interacting
with it is "incompressible", at least in the way most people are talking about
when they talk about "compressible". If the particles interact, then they
usually change into some other particle or get absorbed or something, and I
wouldn't count that as compression either since the particle no longer exists.
- Robert Munafo http://www.mrob.com
LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13
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