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dibs, they also need to teach the concept of “compound interest” in high school.

congratulations benson!

benson,
thanks for the response.
I believe we have another case of “two different problems”
here.
While I don’t disagree with your statement on light wave propagation.
The experiment I’m describing is one in which the interference characteristics are factored out, at least theoretically.
slowed down to the extent of one photon per second aimed at a single slit.
Still the accumulated effect was one of interference, indicating a probability distribution outside of expected
Newtonian/Maxwell equations.

Ok…Lex and 54th. I’ll see you suckers at 11:45. You still have my cell # ? Text or call me if something changes.

Benson, did that big piece of biz come with a promotion?
Congrats.

******BoreumHillScott*******

I saw something about your going (or blowing off, I didn’t quite get whether you went or not) to McSorley’s Ale House for an event.

I wanted to tell you about an experience there. I went there a long time ago, when they first allowed women into the all male place. Ok, so drank too much ale and then had no interest in going back until my friend wanted to go recently. He’s originally from Boston, always wanted to go so we went.

I am standing at the bar with him under this wierd hanging contraption. It looked like what might have been a hanging light fixture (no lights anymore) covered with dust (understatement) and on the fixture are these sticks (turns out to be wishbones) also covered with a wooly, grey like skuzzy coating of dust and crud.

The bartender told the story. During WW I, guys from the neighborhood, before leaving to join the WW I War effort, brought a wishbone from home to hang on the light fixture. When they returned from Europe and back to civilian life, they took a wishbone off the rack. The wishbones which were left on the fixture were the ones which were never reclaimed by the guys who died during the war. He said somebody tried to clean up the fixture once and the regulars went crazy. So they remain. With almost 100 years of dust, crud, and dirt. (Explains the wheezing experience I had standing under it).

My friend was completely enchanted with this place, the pictures on the wall, the divey atmosphere and this wierd salute to WW I war fallen.

Did you see that when you were there?