A similar experiment is scheduled for September 3rd, to be repeated on the 4th and 5th, conducted in a large but non-dryer containment vessel with a flat field. The Red Sox will attempt to annihilate the White Sox, but the error rate will likely be high due to significant lint in the vessel (Fenway Park). Standing waves are anticipated. Seriously, if there were an antimatter galaxy, and the radiation pressure from annihilations at its boundary had long ago swept the surrounding space very clear of matter and antimatter, is the flux of matter through such vast voids sufficient that we could detect the glow when random particles from each domain strayed into the opposite and annihilated? I have no idea, but Henry's question seems valid. -- Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Baker" <hbaker1@pipeline.com> To: "Hilarie Orman" <ho@alum.mit.edu>; "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:26 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Stupid antimatter questions
A careful experimental measurement of the number of left & right sox has led to a small but significant difference in left & right sock/antisock annihilations. This difference cannot be explained by the Standard Model, and work is proceeding in multiple laboratories to better understand this phenomenon.
Since additional data would help sharpen the current estimates of this discrepancy, an open source project known as SETX (Search for Extra Terrestrial soX) enables PC's and dryers from all over the world to participate in this project.
If you would like to participate, and your dryer is connected via 10Gbit Ethernet to your PC, please contact www.setx.org. It is essential that your dryer be completely free of lint, as the presence of excess lint masks the phenomenon (see the "No Lint Theorem").
At 04:52 PM 6/30/2010, Hilarie Orman wrote:
On occasion, anti-matter particles, somewhere in the universe, form a very "uncertain" sock. Through quantum tunneling into a home centrifuge (dryer), the anti-sock can merge with a normal sock, annihilating both. The frequency of this well-documented phenomenon is the basis for current estimates of the distribution of anti-matter.
Hilarie
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