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Message 15 of 175 (175800)
01-11-2005 9:40 AM
Reply to: Message 10 by riVeRraT
01-11-2005 8:37 AM


riVeRraT
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't that how we carbon date things?
Individual decay events have an equal probabilty of occuring at any time, so, it is impossible to say when that event will occur for a given particle.

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Message 130 of 175 (179984)
01-23-2005 4:41 PM
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01-23-2005 12:01 PM


Re: chance and assumption and random chaos
riVeRrat
Everything relates to good or bad in some sort of fashion, I challenge you to find one human choice that doesn't.
At work today I needed to hammer in a sheet of plywood and I had to decide whether to hang from the roof edge and use my left hand to drive the nails or climb to the scaffolding below and use my right.I chose left.What is the moral? On the drive back from work,I chose a right turn to take a stop at Tim Hortons instead of left for a direct return to the shop.What is the moral? I took the elevator and not the stairs. The moral?
Things are never black and white.

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