Re: antihydrogen atoms

From: Richard Steven Hack (richardhack@pcmagic.net)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 14:18:49 MST

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At 03:03 PM 2/24/02 -0500, you wrote:

>One gram of matter reacting with one gram of antimatter produces a 43
>kiloton explosion. Or so I recall from my happy childhood perusal of "War
>in 2080".
>
>-- -- -- -- --
>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
>Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>

Well. we have 20-odd megatons and 43 kilotons. Are we all using the same
physics here?

Jeeez....

Richard Steven Hack
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