On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:49, John Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > It is interesting to note that the complete works of Shakespeare must > also occur in Pi somewhere. (irrational, non ending and non > repetitive
I suspect there is an invalid assumption about randomness that we are making when we go along with the old thought experiment of a corps of eternally typing monkeys eventually producing Shakespeare's folio or imagining that the folio can be found at some point transcoded in the decimals of Pi. I wonder if there is already a mathematical proof out there to the effect that the latter is an impossibility. I have not seen the video, but what has been described could possibly be due to parallax with the frame of reference of the camera and arising in connection with a piece of the meteor that split off at some point during entry. I doubt the gravitational field of a ten ton meteor is strong enough to keep much in an orbit of any kind. Eric
