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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
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Subject: Re: Procyon's Promise
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 19:01:11 EDT
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hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) <1491@shark.UUCP>:
>
>>Procyon's Promise, by Michael McCollum. Del Rey 1985.
>>
>>Ugh. Not only does he have such obvious boners as antimatter black holes
>> ...
>>	Peter da Silva (the mad Australian)
>>		UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter
>>		MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076
>
>Very obvious boner.  Stephen Hawking made the same "boner".  A black hole
>can be "made" of just about any type of matter, antimatter included.
>
>Hutch

I wonder...

If a black hole were made out of antimatter, would it be possible to annihilate
it by throwing enough ordinary matter into it?  And vice versa?  Actually I
guess that wouldn't do much good, since the resultant energy would still be
trapped within the black hole.  Comments, net.physics?
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