On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My comments: > 'Antimatter is cheap IF you have a self-replicating system that can produce > it, and IF you are willing to discard energy that might otherwise be > dedicated to potentially more useful pursuits'. > > Do you have such a system? If not, it's still unobtainium. But there are two classes of "unobtanium". There is the class which violates known laws of physics (which we will not talk about). And there is the class which does *not* violate laws of physics and is simply dependendt on scaling issues. CERN has recently demonstrated the ability to create and store anti-protons, positrons and anti-hydrogen. So "anti-matter" is not a matter of fiction but a matter of economics. Self-replicating systems produce literally everything you see in the world around you. (A world without self-replicating systems would be very boring indeed.) There is no reason to believe that we cannot construct self-replicating systems that produce particle accelerators or Penning traps. You are arguing from the position that they "do not currently exist" rather than "they can never exist". I will openly agree that your position is currently valid. But can you present any evidence that you are not an individual attempting to promote an idea that "flight is impossible" in December of 1902, a year before the Wright Brothers took off? Robert == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
