Posted by John Nichols on March 02, 2006 at 05:15:24 from 165.91.46.181 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Catriona McLeod Nichols posted by Prue Eckett on March 02, 2006 at 03:31:20:
Thank you for your wishes.
Everyone says she is cute. Yes: Beijing was very cold. Coniston was 3 degrees today, Beijing was a touch colder.
She just had a 1.5 hour meltdown and so I am stressed.
Thanks for:
1. The two delightful messages I got today about the "wee little beastie" - one by board and one by email.
2. Jock thanks for cheering up an old man with your wit and humour and whatever you call it.
3. Dowsing by reading a map is no different to a route location survey. I think it should go here for whatever reasons and then you try it. As with things some things work and some don't.
4. I once was in a lecture on quantum physics and the Professor stated quite interestingly that a colour TV was just as likely under quantum physics as some of the newly found particles. I think he exaggerated a bit for his audience but the world is a strange place filled with strange things: like particle tunnelling and zener diodes.
5. Science is rewritten everyday in some field, we just do not see it because it is discussed like AR on obsqure notice boards. For instance did you know that 2/3 rds of all future cervical cancers appear likely to be avoided by a vaccination. When I told my wife she thought I was making it up - not unlike some of the comments on dowsing.
6. Mao had a lot of problems. which we need not discuss here and teh one I am referring to had naught to do with politics.
7. The list of all lists stuffs the GUT theory. As does the "absence of information from a black hole" - a black hole is black and so there is some negative information, we may not see the light anymore but in not seeing the light we infer a lot of things. So Hawking must be wrong if he says there is no info from a black hole.
8. The NSF turned down my Pacific Island proposal and so I am miffed.
9. How does the book that hold all the world's maths exist if it is not counted in the book? Paradox's are the ruination of mathematics. Oh for the good old days of drowning the mathematician we did not agree with: the Greeks thought irrational numbers were bizarre.
Regards
John Nichols