In later years (?) this was also written up in his "Astounding" magazine
[and/or one of his other SF endeavors]  The stories I remember in particular
centered around "Anti-thiotimoline" and one where thiotimoline was used as
the basis of a computer chip [thus creating a computer that could predict
the future, since it would have the answer to your query ready before you
entered it...]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Lake [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:51 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Faster Than Light?
>
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> At 11:33 AM -0700 7/20/00, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >While not related to the experiment described here, there
> was a classic
> >paper in the late 1950s called _The Endochronic Properties of
> >Resublimated Thiotimoline_, which describes a chemical so soluble in
> >water that under certain circumstances, it dissolves just before the
> >water is added.
>
>
> I believe this paper was written by Isaac Asimov (who wrote more
> non-fiction than he did fiction) as a deliberate spoof on the
> scientific
> community. Many took it seriously for a long time, as it was
> written with
> rigor and erudition.
>
>
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