PEN-L
mailing list archive
[ Other Periods  | Other mailing lists  | Search  ]
Date:  [ Previous  | Next  ]      Thread:  [ Previous  | Next  ]      Index:  [ Author  | Date  | Thread  ]

oil predictions


>>> seamus2001@xxxxxxxx 07/10/01 05:19PM >>>

> ((((((((((
>
> CB: I didn't know about the chemically bonding contamination. How
much is contaminated ? Sounds like a small percentage .
>
> How about taking a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen and combining it to
make new water ?
===========
That's where the Star Trek technology comes in. You'd need a quantum
computer capable of synthesizing probability amplitudes from the
Planck scale; it's not even decidable whether it's possible yet, let
alone if it would ever be technically and economically feasible.

Ian

((((((((

CB: This undecidability IN PRINCIPLE stuff is weird. I mean does physics have to turn into the complete opposite of its "exacting" self , from hard to totally soft science ?  Social science need no longer have an inferiority complex. What gives ?
[ Other Periods  | Other mailing lists  | Search  ]