Re: quantum darwin?

2005-03-08 Thread Ray Ludenia
On 08/03/2005, at 8:23 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote in a fascinating exchange with Dan: Or the suggestion that detecting things a given way once will set pointers such that those things will more naturally tend that way in the future. Seems that is just a more radical expression of the Practice

Re: You will be sorry you asked: was Re: Counting

2005-03-08 Thread David Hobby
Trent Shipley wrote: ... I did not recognize this as a simple pigeonhole problem of 2n choose n, so I cross posted to lists where I thought I might get help and would not be accused of an off topic post. David Hobby, do you live in the Phoenix area? No, upstate New York. This is a design issue.

Re: Jobless Recovery Speculation

2005-03-08 Thread Gary Denton
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:15:22 -0500, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.investorsinsight.com/article.asp?id=jmotb030705 The Mystery of the Awful Economists By Barry Ritholtz 2005 March 7 John Mauldin's Outside The Box I've been making a fortune lately. (No, I don't own any

Re: quantum darwin?

2005-03-08 Thread Robert J. Chassell
My understanding is that physicists who talk about you as the observer who causes a collapse of a wave function, who say that ... observing an experiment is what changes its outcome ... are being solipsistic, since none can prove that there is anything outside of oneself. They try to speak

[Listref] Finding the Ultimate Theory of Everything

2005-03-08 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.rednova.com/news/space/132303/finding_the_ultimate_theory_o f_everything/index.html Could two lookalike galaxies, barely a whisker apart in the night sky, herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Some physicists believe that the two galaxies are the same - its

Fw: Andre Norton update

2005-03-08 Thread Robert Seeberger
Here's an Andre Norton update from ANSIBLE: ANDRE NORTON, who was 93 on 17 February, was hospitalized with 'flu and pneumonia but has since returned home for terminal hospice care. On the 21st, her carer Sue Stewart explained that Norton preferred to await the end in familiar

Re: Fw: Andre Norton update

2005-03-08 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:48 PM Tuesday 3/8/2005, Robert Seeberger wrote: Here's an Andre Norton update from ANSIBLE: ANDRE NORTON, who was 93 on 17 February, was hospitalized with 'flu and pneumonia but has since returned home for terminal hospice care. On the 21st, her carer Sue Stewart explained that