Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers,net.physics Subject: Re: Re: Procyon's Promise & antimatter black holes Message-ID: <601@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:30:20 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.601 Posted: Thu Aug 15 12:30:20 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:10:55 EDT References: <320@baylor.UUCP> <1491@shark.UUCP> <313@ttrdc.UUCP> <560@mmintl.UUCP> <530@brl-tgr.ARPA> <357@baylor.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Distribution: net Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 18 Xref: linus net.books:2078 net.sf-lovers:8440 net.physics:2873 Summary: Complaints are beside the point [this is not a spoiler] I just read _Life_Probe_, the predecesser to _Procyon's_Promise_. It is quite clear there, when McCollum first introduces the anti-matter black holes, that he knows there is no difference between matter and anti-matter black holes by current theory. He is assuming that that theory is wrong, and that anti-matter black holes have a longer lifespan. This is much the same sort of thing every science fiction writer does. Now, I think he would have been better to have been more vague about what his I-masses were (or consult a physicist to get a more plausible explanation). Firstly, the kind of difference between matter and anti- matter black holes he proposes is just not very likely. Second, the time, shortly after the big bang, when quantum black holes might have formed is well before the separation of the primal ylem into matter and anti-matter. Oh, well, at least he tried.