[extropy-chat] the culture of force & matter

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

scerir wrote:
> 
> Another theo(he)retical possibility  would be
> the 'unmatter'. Besides matter and antimatter 
> there must exist 'unmatter' (as a new form of matter) 
> in accordance with the neutrosophy theory that between 
> an entity and its opposite there exist intermediate 
> entities. 'Unmatter' is neither matter nor antimatter, 
> but something in between. An atom of 'unmatter' is formed 
> either by (1): electrons, protons, and antineutrons, 
> or by (2): antielectrons, antiprotons, and neutrons. 
> It will be possible to test the production of 
> 'unmatter'. The existence of 'unmatter' in the universe 
> has a similar chance to that of the antimatter, and its 
> production also difficult for present technologies.
> 
> More about this, at cern.ch
> http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/other/ext/ext-2004-142.pdf

...

You know, I'm pretty sure that I once read a humorous SF novel featuring 
three states: matter, anti-matter and doesn't-matter.

Truth isn't stranger than fiction, but sometimes it comes pretty close.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence