Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!fred From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Re: This is serious! Message-ID: <235@gymble.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 15:11:55 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.235 Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:11:55 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 01:52:55 EDT References: <2264@amdcad.UUCP> <1350@uwmacc.UUCP> <202@calma.uucp> <287@kitty.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 23 > From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) > Newsgroups: net.arch,net.micro,net.bizarre > Subject: Re: Re: This is serious! > Message-ID: <287@kitty.UUCP> > > Reminds me of some of my weirder brainstorms, like a > substance made of a crystal of charged black holes (charge > opposed gravity). . . . But boy talk about a rigid > structure! . . . Bah! If the charge exactly balances gravity, its effect ought to decrease according to the inverse-square rule, exactly the same as the gravity, so it would balance the effect of gravity at any distance. The charge would cancel out the gravity, so your ``crystal'' would be about as rigid as a drunk salted slug. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred