October 24, 2006

• Symmetries (4/2/03) continued…

  Critical Mass

  
   

  Thanks to University Diaries for
  yesterday’s entry on Harvard:

  “I wonder if there’s just been a critical mass of creepy stories about
  Harvard in the last couple of years… A kind of piling on of nastiness
  and creepiness…”

  See also the previous Log24 entry, on yesterday’s Pennsylvania lottery, and this description of an experiment I remember fondly from my youth:

  “The floor in a large room was covered with mouse traps that were
  ‘cocked’ and on each was placed a ping pong ball. At the key moment an
  additional ping pong ball was tossed out and triggered a single mouse
  trap to go off. The net result after the balls started bouncing was a
  classic chain reaction.”

  “I thought Christmas
  comes but once a year.”
  – James Bond

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