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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
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  3. From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
  4. Subject: Re: Ghostbusters
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov22.231323.12945@galois.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@galois.mit.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz
  8. Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
  9. References: <1541700010@gn.apc.org>
  10. Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 23:13:23 GMT
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  13. In article <1541700010@gn.apc.org> antennae@gn.apc.org writes:
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  16. >My 7 year old son won't go upstairs on his own because he is afraid
  17. >of ghosts.  I told him I'd give him a 'charm' to scare them off and
  18. >found a tiny, beautifully carved and painted, soapstone tiger which
  19. >seems to have done the trick.
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  21. >Can you physicists do as well? 
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  23. I would simply show him a proof of the no-ghosts theorem.
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