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the formula




many years ago, before some of you were even yet born, i was at the
scripps institution of oceanography . .  it was a beautiful early
afternoon so a group of us sat down at an outdoor campus table for some
camaraderie and food . . . . it was then that we were honored for the
great chemist and nobel laureate, harold urey, decided to join us . . .  as
was his right, he decided to pontificate upon a new theory of his on
movements in the cosmos . . .  it was beautifully presented and the data
fit perfectly into his mathematics . . and remember, even in those days we
had probability functions, gaussian distribution, sigma deviations,
differential equations and such :]]]]

it was a beautiful presentation for everything meshed together into the
mathematics so nicely . . .  it was then that one of the lesser nobles
looked up at urey and ask if he had taken into account the leap years . .
.  three words rolled from harold urey's mouth like thunder . .  "oh my
god" . . . . for the mathematics would no longer mesh with the data and
and the entire theory crumbled . . .

tish tish

jamie