RPS385%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (08/12/85)
From: RPS385%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Jeffrey Smith) Someone a while back mentioned what would the children of an anti-matter/matter marriage look like? To be perfectly truthfull, if an antimatter girl and a matter boy even touched (kissed, held hands) the explosion would liberate 1.22 * 10**28 watts of energy. That is enough energy to light 1,000,000 light bulbs for 3,868,594,600,000 years! That's a lot of fireworks for a first kiss!! (I considered average male and female masses for the boy and anti-girl) Now if only we could accumulate a few ounces of anti-matter, and control the reaction. Quite a power source! Of course it would make a formidible weapon too..
levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) (08/12/85)
In article <3232@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, RPS385%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Jeffrey Smith) writes: >if an antimatter girl and a matter boy even touched (kissed, held >hands) the explosion would liberate 1.22 * 10**28 watts of energy. You've slipped your units. Joules, not watts. -- ------------------------------- Disclaimer: The views contained herein are | dan levy | yvel nad | my own and are not at all those of my em- | an engihacker @ | ployer, my pets, my plants, my boss, or the | at&t computer systems division | s.a. of any computer upon which I may hack. | skokie, illinois | | "go for it" | Path: ..!ihnp4!ttrdc!levy -------------------------------- or: ..!ihnp4!iheds!ttbcad!levy
mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) (08/14/85)
Let's postulate an antimatter girl. Question: How do we get this
girl into an environment where a matter boy can possibly kiss her
without liberating that 1.22E28 watts in the process (through contact
with air, floor, etc)? Remember, it doesn't take a duplicate of a
molecule to explode this way. Each particle will go as soon as it
touches its antiparticle -- and there are plenty of anti-{electron,
proton, neutron, etc}s making up our whole environment.
Quite a power source, yes. As I recall, a few pounds of antimatter
was enough to run the USS Enterprise, which must draw quite a lot of
juice.
--
der Mouse
System hacker and general troublemaker
CVaRL, McGill University
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>From: RPS385%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Jeffrey Smith) > >To be perfectly truthfull, if an antimatter girl and a >matter boy even touched (kissed, held hands) the explosion >would liberate 1.22 * 10**28 watts of energy. They say in the film MAN WHO WOULD BE KING that if a human girl kissed a god she will go up in a puff of flame -- "T-zing!" Clearly this proves that what the Khafiris thought were ancient gods were really anti-matter aliens. Ancient Astronauts... ("they practically owned South America!"-- Carpenter's THE THING) Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper