HHTIM HTTER AND RNTI-UNIVERSES
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds
new discoveries, is not "Eureka" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
-ISAAC ASIMOV
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank,
and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now
we can't burn him.
-MARK TWAIN
You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back.
-BEVERLY RUBIR
In Dan Brown's book Angels and Demons, the bestselling predecessor
to The Da Vinci Code, a small band of extremists, the Illuminati, have
hatched a plot to blow up the Vatican using an antimatter bomb, stolen
from CERN, the nuclear laboratory outside Geneva. The conspirators
know that when matter and antimatter touch each other the result is a
monumental explosion, many times more powerful than a hydrogen
bomb. Although an antimatter bomb is pure fiction, antimatter is very
real.
An atomic bomb, for all its awesome power, is only about 1 percent
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