[news.groups] accelerated philosophers

maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (10/26/89)

john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
\...
\Oh?  What does current theory say about the results of accelerating a
\philosopher to 26TeV and slamming him into a brick wall target?

That would produce a negative John Woods particle with spin up and a
positive Richard Sexton particle with spin down.  The latter disintegrates
after 1.2ns into a sci.aquaria boson and a rec.aquaria lepton.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
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bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) (10/28/89)

>A symbolic link is a POINTER to a file, | Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
> a hard link is the file system's GOTO. | maart@cs.vu.nl, mcsun!botter!maart

huh? a symbolic link is a call by name and a hard link is a call by
reference. Your analogy has conformability problems.
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