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Any other stupid questions you want to ask me?” She could hear the grin in his voice as he asked, “What are you wearing?” Why would he even care? “The scalps of men that annoyed me when I was trying to sleep.” “Allow me to rephrase. Are you decent? By Sa Kaon standards?
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Honor Raconteur (The Scofflaw Magician (The Artifactor #3))
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The decay process, governed by the “weak” nuclear force, can go both ways; that is, physicists can smash pions together to create kaons. But there is a difference: the reaction used to produce kaons takes just a trillionth of a trillionth of a second (10-24 seconds), but the decay takes longer — up to a nanosecond (109 seconds). Why should the decay of a kaon take a thousand trillion times longer than its creation?
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Dan Falk (In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time)