On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 7:26 PM howardmarks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lots of people have "premonitions" and beliefs they experience telepathy Richard Feynman has a story about that. One day when he was a undergraduate out of the blue he suddenly had a premonition that his grandmother had died, seconds later somebody shouted "Hey Feynman there's a phone call for you". He walked to the phone in dread only to learn it was just another student telling him he left his textbook in the classroom. And it turned out grandma was fine. The moral is premonitions are common but correct premonitions are rare, however if you ignore the many false ones and concentrate of the very few correct ones eventually you are bound to find some remarkable coincidences. And even a stopped clock is correct twice a day. It's very easy to fool yourself this way and discover what you very much want to discover, that's why places like CERN must have at least five sigma confidence before they can claim a discovery; that means there is only one chance in 3.5 million that what they saw was due to chance. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3bBdufd5sM%2BH7AsR1q029XjKq5dCQ_ZUSh_xEG6ZkMaQ%40mail.gmail.com.
