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>From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Scaled up slug brains
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Date: 19 Dec 91 00:15:27 GMT
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In article <361@idtg.UUCP>, dow@idtg (Keith Dow) writes:
>I guess that is why I put in the phrase "in or NEAR thermal equilibrium."

Get a clue.  Thermodynamics NEAR thermal equilibrium is child's play.  The
only trivial Nobel Prize in physics was for the buoy feedback thingamabob.

>That was experimental paper?  I thought ...

Try not to think.  Go look up the papers I referenced.  They contain the
references to the actual experiments that give the actual evidence for
the existence of pumped phonon condensations in biological systems.

>Since there is no limit to how large a phonon wavelength can be, the phonons
>have no ground state.  Therefore Bose-Einstein condensation doesn't apply 
>to them at all.

There is no limit to photon wavelength either, yet they manage to lase.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


