Re: The Irony of Hamilton's Success
From: Perplexed in Peoria (jimmenegay_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 03/03/05
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:07:17 -0500 (EST)
"Claudius" <claudius_denk@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:d0626h$gh8$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> ... And I hope you can understand that
> the desperation of this speculation is intended to
> save Hamilton's thinking.
Pardon the intrusion, but how does it "save" Hamilton's thinking
to suggest that he came up with the right formula "rb>c" and
with the right definition of r (as probability of IBD), yet did
so for all the wrong reasons?
If Hamilton did indeed get these results by a statistical argument,
but McGinn is right that the argument is flawed, then it would be
very spooky if the results can be saved by the unforseen existence
of some kind of quantum-mechanical effect. (Cue Rod Serling, and
play title theme music).
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