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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (5248)	2/9/2001 11:57:06 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think you have to look at the ratio of Mozart protons that spent at least a brief moment bound to the guy (which while mobile, don't leave Mozart completely all that quickly) to the total pool of protons on the Earth (not just the biomass). The only mechanism for Rambi in Texas to get a Mozart proton is by some sort of diffusion process. While I support the proton mobility part of your argument, I question whether the net spacial distribution of these protons is very large. 300 years is a long time for some small number of protons to get over to Texas in any concentration, but that concentration is necessarily going to be very low, even when faced with the large number of protons in a Rambi. The concentration of Mozart protons compared to all protons in the world is pretty low (maybe 10^50), Given the sheer volume of water in the oceans (many kilometers thick and covering 5/6 of the planet) seems to put that at a low, low, low probability. But if one is happy with only one proton that was once in Mozart, then maybe a tiny chance. I think we have to consider that the proton may have decayed as well, becoming a neutron. I don't know if I want to count those!!