Watching the telly

[den]

I just saw Dr Who shut down a runaway reactor by reversing the polarity of the neutron flow.

Comments

[haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com]

There's two ways of looking at that:
either it's a massive achievement to reverse the charge of something which never had a charge in the first place
or it's quite obscenely easy because all you have to do is think about the concept of a neutron's charge in a subtly different way (it doesn't have a positive charge...it doesn't have a negative charge)

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Well, actually you CAN reverse the charges on a neutron. All you have to do is convince it to say yes when the operator says "Will you accept this call?" And that's not much of a problem for Dr. Who. Everyone wants to talk to HIM.