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Di-positronium

Oct 23, 2007 The Shedu link
Oct 23, 2007 Shadoen link
IMa chargin ma LaZer!!
Oct 23, 2007 Lord~spidey link
SHOOP DA GAMMA RAY ANNIALAHTION LASER
Oct 23, 2007 epadafunk link
lazer?
Oct 23, 2007 mr bean link
OMG mr bean wants a gamma ray anihalation lazer to mount on his car.
Oct 24, 2007 Professor Chaos link
What if they make their super-atom and it does begin to form a crystalline solid, and the reaction is so strong that they can't stop it and it consumes the Earth into a small crystal a couple centemeters long! It sounds like the opposite of Dr. Device to me.

(Before you try to tell me it doesn't work that way, I'm just kidding you guys.)
Oct 24, 2007 look... no hands link
"What if they make their super-atom and it does begin to form a crystalline solid, and the reaction is so strong that they can't stop it and it consumes the Earth into a small crystal a couple centemeters long! It sounds like the opposite of Dr. Device to me.

(Before you try to tell me it doesn't work that way, I'm just kidding you guys.)"

then it'd be a good day to happen to be on the international space station.
Oct 24, 2007 iry link
I dunno...
Wouldn't that mean you get to starve / suffocate instead of being painlessly "rearranged".
Oct 24, 2007 Professor Chaos link
The whole point of di-positronium is that it's extremely painful. Otherwise, scientists wouldn't bother making it. Not the mad ones, anyway.
Oct 24, 2007 mr bean link
how do we know its extremely painful?
Oct 25, 2007 Cunjo link
"gamma-ray annihilation laser"?

Shouldn't that be electron annihilation or matter/antimatter annihilation? or at least just "gamma ray laser"?

gamma rays aren't matter (in the traditional sense), and they don't get annihilated - they're the product of annihilation.

the reason gamma rays are so powerful, is they're essentially the energy-conservation equivalent of dividing by ('almost') zero. (given that energy*mass is constant, when mass is annihilated the energy is OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND)
Oct 25, 2007 toshiro link
Stop quoting einstein out of context :P
Oct 27, 2007 Cunjo link
That wasn't Einstein.
Oct 27, 2007 Ryce link
Oct 28, 2007 Cunjo link
It was internet layman.
Nov 17, 2007 RattMann link
It took me more than two hours not to understand this discussion.