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Physics World

Courageous recipe for metaphysics

Myles MacBean

Published Apr 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

In reply to the Lateral Thoughts article "Recipe for a miracle" (January p56), in which Sebastian Wood looked at how, in principle, water could be transformed into wine.
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10.1088/2058-7058/32/4/27

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