Re: Semantics and Radioactivity

[Maury Siskel <maury@webtexas.com>]

Jerry Cohen wrote:

> Sorry about the cyberglitch on my recent  note. The estimated half-life
> of the proton is not 1031 years. That should read 10 E31, or
> 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. I don't see
> how we can dispose of anything containing protons, because social
> institutions are simply not capable of managing it for such a long
> time :-)

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an obvious touch of pessimism .... hang in there, Jerry

maury@webtexas.com

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