CALL ME SNAKE

I just got an email message today from a nuclear physicist in Michigan State in response to questions I posed to him a year ago about the synthesis of heavy elements in the early universe by means of the “r process.” He answered the questions politely, and matter of factly, as if I had written to him just yesterday, rather than in APRIL 2004. Perhaps my letter took a roundabout route, traveling to him by way of Alpha Centauri. Maybe there is something to this “cyberspace” term after all. I don’t really have much more to say about the incident other than this: The whole thing strikes me as rather freaky.