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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: Re: The atom named 'Joe' ( was Re: ''...distincti
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In article <1992Mar28.224354.10405@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
[ reference to interchange re: lower depths (limits) of 'identity',
  the 'atom named Joe' is a reference to the fact that a single atom
  may be examined over time, even watched and filmed with an appropriate
  electron microscope ]
>I understand that "Joe" has gone to Utah and undergone cold fusion with
>"Beth", forming "Mandy", who has since split into "Ralph" and "Alice".
>Trouble is, no one knows whose elementary particles wound up where, so
>there's some question as to whether "Ralph" is identical with good old
>"Joe".

 Well, EmmmmZetttt, maybe the atom named "Smiley", has gotten lost,
 but the atom named 'Joe' is still catching some rays on the movie set
 where the physicists are still filming him for posterity, by the way,
 they have his NUMBER too !!!!!!!!


