Author: Maryetta Campbell
Date:  2010-08-26 10:42  -600
To: fractint
Subject: Re: [Fractint] FOTD 26-08-10 (Second-Hand Seahorse [8])
david wrote:
>
> Jim Muth wrote:
>>
>> Until then, take care, and where does dark energy
>> come from? (Most likely it's simply negative energy!)
>>
>
> Politicians and lawyers.
>

>Definitely the predominate sources!!! Though a good percentage
>probably also comes from various other bureaucrats, and of course
>salesmen.


Now the source has been identified I wonder about its composition.
As it is both pervasive and inert I suggest the following.

"Scientists in the UK have discovered the heaviest element known to science. This startling new discovery
has been tentatively named Bureaucratium (Bm). The new element has no protons or electrons,
thus having an atomic number of O. It does, however, have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons,
75 vice-neutrons and 111 assistant vice-neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, and are surrounded by vast quantities
of lepton-like particles called peons. Since it has no electrons, Bureaucratium is inert. However, it can be detected
as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. According to the discoverers,
a minute amount of Bureaucratium causes a reaction to take more than four days to complete
when it would normally take less than an hour. Bureaucratium has a normal half-life of approximately
 three years; it does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the
assistant neutrons, vice-neutrons, and assistant vice-neutrons  exchange places. In fact a Bureaucratium
sample's mass will actually increase over time, since with each reorganisation  some of the morons
 inevitably become neutrons, forming new isotopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads
some scientists to speculate that Bureaucratium is spontaneously formed whenever morons reach
 a certain quantity  in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as the “Critical Morass”."
 
Roger Alexander