X-Message-Number: 14248 From: Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 17:03:41 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #14185 - #14192 In a message dated 7/28/00 2:03:09 AM, writes: << A carbon atom in Boston is not the same as a carbon atom in New-York. Yvan Bozzonetti. >> no. it isn't. but it may be that the electrons in each are the same electron jumping quickly around the universe, as someone pointed out a few posts ago. and the same for the other parts of each. but sometimes they combine to make carbon atom a and sometimes carbon atom b, distinguished by their position and by how they interact with their environment. not that it makes any actionable difference. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14248