[lit-ideas] Re: Tuesday Joke

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:04:59 +0900

Makes her a loose proton....

Why "her" by the way?

John

On 3/7/07, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
John McCreery wrote

> Actually irrelevant, isn't it, since all atoms that haven't been ionized
> have equal numbers of protons and electrons.

Yes. I was led to believe many years ago that the hydrogen atom was
the simplest atom and that it consisted of one proton and one
electron. So 'one of my electrons' wouldn't make sense for the
hydrogen atom character, who should just say, 'my electron.' Does that
make her positive? In the idiomatic sense, of course; but in the
physicist's sense--? I haven't a clue. Whatever happened to David
Savory?

Robert Paul

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