Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!allegra!don From: don@allegra.UUCP (D. Mitchell) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Leaps of Faith Message-ID: <2397@allegra.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 04:34:37 EST Article-I.D.: allegra.2397 Posted: Wed Apr 11 04:34:37 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Apr-84 04:59:30 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 5 Mr. Caplan. I am pretty sure that if a room holds 8 gas molecules, that in a short while all of them will be on one side for an instant. If there are 10^30 molecules I am content to believe that it will just take a little longer. I have a certain naive faith that arithmetic continues to work even when I run out of fingers and toes to count on.