Re: Air, Fire, Earth, and Water

From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 21:50:39 MST

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Anders Sandberg wrote:

> earth=solid, water=liquid, air=gas, fire=plasma. But now we have many
> more states than four: Einstein-Bose condensates, superfluids,
> degenerate matter, nuclear matter, quark matter and whatnot. Can we
> come up with equally poetic symbols for them...

Einstein-Bose condensates = mud
superfluids = alcohol
degenerate matter = excrement
quark matter = duck feed
whatnot = dryer lint

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