OK so I missed Saturday. It will happen in the future. Friday evening I went to Harvey Mudd College. It has a real nice urban campus in Claremont and the Galileo Auditorium is spacious but cozy at the same time. This was were I saw Brian Greene. Friday night was by a Cornell professor talking about synchrony. He had a short video of fire flies in Cambodia which flash in synchrony. Tens of thousands of them all together. He also demonstrated that given a few seconds, every one in the audience clapped their hands in synchrony. All together with no leader. Which was his point: there doesn't have to be a leader for self organization to occur. There are many example of self organization in nature. An argument for the spontaneous emergence of life I suppose. And he offered a small smattering of the math involved since the speech was sponsored by the math department.
No earthquakes registered and no planes observed overhead. But then I didn't look for them either. Conclusion? Inconclusive correlation.
Not looking is dangerous of we're all on this flight together.
Dick
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