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摘要

First of all I would like to thank you for your kind hospitality.rnI've got some news that may seem shocking to you, but I have found that I must tell you. Actually, it seems I have absolutely no way of getting around it. But since I still have troubles in saying complex things, I will tell you here on this piece of paper.rnI really hope, well actually I know, that you won't be shocked too much by this news: I'm an alien. I mean an alien in the sense that I come from a different planet. The planet I come from is very different from the one you're living on. You would say, if you could discover our planet, that it's made out of antimatter. We, on the other hand, would say your planet is made out of antimatter. But that all depends on the point of view. Anyway, I guess you don't know what antimatter is, even though you've been bugging me quite a while with questions about it lately. Antimatter is actually the same thing as matter, except that it goes in the opposite direction of time. That means that while you're getting older every day, I'm getting younger. Or from my point of view, while I'm getting older, you're getting younger since you're made of antimatter while I'm not. I guess you can see that it gives me quite a bit of troubles living on a planet where everything else goes backwards in time. By now I'm sure you're wondering how it happened that I came to live on your planet. So here's my story: on my planet people have been studying matter and antimatter for hundreds of years. Now our years are quite a bit longer than your years, so you can imagine that this has been a very long time. Anyway, one of the main properties of antimatter and matter, the property that when they collide, they evaporate into energy, has was long ago.