----- Original Message ----- From: David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:27 AM Subject: Re: GS 3 > (Then again, the ratio of var births to clone births is also > given as "1 in 4" somewhere else, and there is unlikely to be > a biological mechanism to produce this exact ratio.) > Anyway, I got to thinking that this was similar to one > child in four of heterozygotic parents having a recessive trait, > and started speculating how one could produce a genetic mechanism > to produce this ratio. No luck... There's a much simpler way to do this. Just fiddle with the ratio of sperm carrying the X and the Y chromosome. > Maybe this is just a case where Brin throws in numbers > which sound good, without anything behind them. (I keep wondering > if the 18 letters of the liturgical alphabet used in one of the > Books of Lysos have anything to do with the 18 particles produced > by considering the 6 families of quarks (u,d,c,s,t,b) and the 3 > particles in each kind (quark, muon and neutrino)....) > Ah, David, it doesnot go that way. The quarks are u c t d s b Associated with this is the lepton, neutrino family. I'll write this out, due to the lack of symbols: electron muon tau electron neutrino muon neutrino tau neutrino That's 12. It can be 24 if you include the anti-particles. Dan M. electron neutr
