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From: donn@sdchema.UUCP
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Subject: Re: signs
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Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 02:23:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 15 02:23:47 1983
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Chemistry Dept. Administration
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A yellowed old sheet of computer paper is tacked to a door in the
basement of Urey Hall near the old NMR labs, and bannered on it is

				PHYSICS
			       CANCELLED
				 TODAY

One expects to see desks and pencils floating casually through the
atmosphere, graduate students accelerating past the speed of light, and
so on....

For a while I thought that this might have been posted by someone who
had read Greg Benford's book TIMESCAPE, which takes place here at UCSD
of all places.  The plot of the novel deals with the discovery of
tachyons, particles which travel faster than the speed of light and
backward in time; surely this is a case where physics is 'cancelled'.
But the paper is so old, it must have been printed before the novel
was written so there can't be any connection.  (Can there?)

Donn Seeley  UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF  ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn