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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Very interesting!</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I think antimatter is well accepted by scientists.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Is unmatter just a philosophical idea or it's also accepted by scientists?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Walter.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [<A HREF="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</A>] On Behalf Of Eliezer Yudkowsky</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 6:03 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: ExI chat list</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] the culture of force & matter</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>scerir wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Another theo(he)retical possibility would be</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the 'unmatter'. Besides matter and antimatter </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> there must exist 'unmatter' (as a new form of matter) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> in accordance with the neutrosophy theory that between </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> an entity and its opposite there exist intermediate </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> entities. 'Unmatter' is neither matter nor antimatter, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> but something in between. An atom of 'unmatter' is formed </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> either by (1): electrons, protons, and antineutrons, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> or by (2): antielectrons, antiprotons, and neutrons. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> It will be possible to test the production of </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> 'unmatter'. The existence of 'unmatter' in the universe </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> has a similar chance to that of the antimatter, and its </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> production also difficult for present technologies.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> More about this, at cern.ch</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> <A HREF="http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/other/ext/ext-2004-142.pdf" TARGET="_blank">http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/other/ext/ext-2004-142.pdf</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>You know, I'm pretty sure that I once read a humorous SF novel featuring </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>three states: matter, anti-matter and doesn't-matter.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Truth isn't stranger than fiction, but sometimes it comes pretty close.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-- </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <A HREF="http://singinst.org/" TARGET="_blank">http://singinst.org/</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence</FONT>
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