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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix (really New Math)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.180312.5516@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:03:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.020150.8786@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >
- > Where did you get the idea that 2+2 = 4? Take two protons (rest mass
- > assumed to be 1) and another two protons (again rest mass of 1),
- > put them together and you get a helium atom with a rest mass somewhat
- > less than 4 (in our assumed units). Sometimes 2+2=4, sometimes it
- > doesn't.
- >
- > You are confusing mathematics with science.
-
- I hate it when I muck up a good point with error. Actually,
- as pointed out by Al Aquilino, I have created a rather unstable
- Beryllium atom.
-
- I knew I should have simply gone with my original deuterium-deuterium
- example. Ya go and try to get cute ...
-
- dale bass
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