If you had two shoes, an ordinary shoe and an "antishoe" made of antiparticles, and you annihilated them together, by how far could you lift the U.S. population?  Assume that each person weighs 600 N, that each shoe's rest-mass is 0.5 kg, and that all the energy goes into lifting.

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If you had two shoes, an ordinary shoe and an "antishoe" made of antiparticles, and you annihilated them together, by how far could you lift the U.S. population?  Assume that each person weighs 600 N, that each shoe's rest-mass is 0.5 kg, and that all the energy goes into lifting. 

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