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- From: higgins@fnala.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Food additive? (was Re: Antimatter (was propulsion questions))
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.013452.1@fnala.fnal.gov>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 07:34:52 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.123315.28475@inmos.co.uk> <6y=mm0p@lynx.unm.edu> <24661@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Jul17.221155.25364@bradley.bradley.edu> <Brp9H4.3GM@zoo.toronto.edu> <24725@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <pgf.711673357@srl03.cacs.usl.edu> <rmartin.711835609@thor>
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- In article <rmartin.711835609@thor>, rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin) writes:
- > pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering) writes:
- >
- > |BTW, Antimatter should also be rather stable at low temperatures.
- > |Some of the positrons should boil off and be annihilated, leaving the
- > |rest of the antimatter with a net negative charge. This should keep
- > |electrons away, while keeping enough positrons bound to the set of
- > |molecules to "screen" away protons and other positive nuclei...
- >
- > I'm beginning to think that this stuff is so stable that you could use
- > it as a food additive. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, where is the kaboom it
- > gives.
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- Once I was in a bakery with another physicist. The display cases
- incorporated mirrors. Right next to a pile of brownies was another
- pile labeled "SEINWORB c55."
-
- That's when we conceived our diet book:
-
- THE AMAZING ANTIMATTER DIET:
- Eat All You Want and *Still* Lose Weight!
-
- Alas, we got busy with other projects and never got around to writing
- it...
-
- Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey | "I'm gonna keep on writing
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- --John Prine
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