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  1. Gem, that’s it, plus Fujianese Chinese are very entrepreneurial. Restaurants are very labor-intensive. A family can open a restaurant in an up-and-coming area (maybe buy the building so they are protected from rent increases, and they have a place to live and more income from renting out the rest of the apartments), work a zillion hours, make money. And 99 percent of the clientele will not realize that they are not the same nationality as the food.

  2. Legion- I realize this may sound dumb but here goes: The first part of the experiment you’re talking about shoots photons through 2 slits and gets several lines. I am assuming from what you said, “several” means more than 2 lines.

    Then you said we would expect shooting through 1 slit would most likely mean 1 line but that would only be the case if there were only 2 lines on the phosphorescent screen in the first part of the experiment, yes? But if you get more than 2 lines of photons through 2 slits, wouldn’t you reasonably expect more than one line through one slit anyway?

  3. “The issue you mention can be resolved by a modified form of the Poisson’s distribution that is called “Student’s T”.

    In this distribution, the process is truncated at a defined point, and at that point the event occurs.”

    Interesting. Let me think about that some more.

    I’m looking forward to getting home tonight and finding the book that I read ages ago that I’m pretty sure goes through this. It may or may not give us a definitive answer.

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