At 02:11 pm 24/02/2006 +1100, you wrote:
>In reply to Grimer's message of Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:03:23 +0000:
>Hi,
>[snip]
>>>Of course the problem with all this is that the ambient pressure
>>>for all particles ought to be the same,
>>
>>
>>Not so. The "absolute" zero pressure is different for the different
>>atmospheres. For the Alpha- it is 14.7 psi below Alpha- ambient;
>>for the Beta- it is - 10^20 psi below Beta- ambient; for the Gamma-
>>it is ........ : for the Delta.....and so on. It's turtles all the
>>way down. 8-)
> If you say so, Ma'am. ;^)
You shouldn't sneer at little old ladies ;-)
especially when they were obviously speaking
metaphorically to Feynman, for as the good
book says,
"confiteor tibi Pater Domine caeli et terrae
quia abscondisti haec a sapientibus et
prudentibus et revelasti ea parvulis"
Frank
