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Re: Another antigravity device

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From: Keith Ramsay
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:06
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In article <1992Dec15.013620.24161@galois.mit.edu> 
jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:

>Imagine an extremely (although not infinitely) rigid crystal.  It takes
>a huge amount of energy to deform the crystal lattice ever so slightly.

It occurred to me that such a crystal might at least be difficult to
rotate, for similar reasons-- uneven Lorenz contraction produces a
strain.

Keith Ramsay
ramsay@math.ubc.ca
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