Re: EchoBay.com & The Pez Candy Dispenser

"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

>Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.

As Rudolph Peierls points out in the essay "Irreversibility" in
his little gem of a book _Surprises in Theoretical Physics_,

        We may try to analyze the problem somewhat more deeply
        by asking why it is that we can easily perform experiments
        in which initial conditions have to be specified, but never
        any requiring terminal conditions.  This is the real
        distinction between past and future.  A little thought
        shows that this is connected with the fact that we can
        remember the past, and that we can make plans for the
        future, but not vice versa.  It is evident that these
        statements are correct, but they do not follow from any
        known laws of physics. 
 
Lee "other than, of course, the fact the you can't see light in a vacuum" 
Rudolph