On Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 6:37:02 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 8:03 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > *> My IQ was measured at 146. But as my mother never tired of reminding >> me; my sister had a higher IQ; 156.* >> > > Was your sister also a Carl Sagan co-author? > No, but David Morrison was one of the co-authors of one of those two papers. At that time, he was working on his Ph'D at Harvard under Sagan. Look him up on Wiki. My name here is a pseudonym. Can't you recall? I told you that. Maybe you're a hybrid between a Trumper (how you handle facts), and an Alzheimer sufferer in the failure of your memory. AG > > > *I demonstrated it by making the simple observation that no observer or >> system can be in a state with, say, a 30% or 70% probability.* >> > > But 10 observers all named Alan Grayson could be all identical except that > 7 of the Alan Graysons see the coin land heads and 3 of the Alan Graysons > see the coin land tails. And all the Alan Graysons could be part of the > same quantum wave function. > When we use probability theory or any theory, we should start with what the theory originally posits. So one cannot be IN a state with less than 100% probability, which only occurs when we measure something. AG > > > *< I see the Alzheimer's is kicking in again, or is it Trumpism?* >> > > I'd stick with the Alzheimer's insult for now if I were you Mr. Ninety > Year old Carl Sagan Co-Author, it's only the second time you've used it > but you've used the Trump at least 10 times and it's time for something > new. > I was just 80, not that that's pertinent to anything here. AG > > >> *> This surely sounds contradictory,* >> > > Perhaps if your IQ was a little higher, maybe 156 like your sister, it > would not sound so contradictory to you. > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > > . > > -- 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/5e9491a9-ab4d-49ff-96f1-c17540f19e44n%40googlegroups.com.
