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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: why FTL is illegal (wrt: free will).
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Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 15:12:33 EST
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> I hope the answer isn't 42 :-).

From "A Natural Formulation of Unified Field Theory" (my Master's
thesis), p. 80:

	...  The multiplier of 1/k on the right-hand side of (D4)
	times n^r was called "z1" by Einstein; it is a measure of
	the degree to which the field equations leave the
	fundamental fields undetermined (one can subject the
	remaining degrees of freedom to various boundary
	constraints, etc. to obtain a _u_n_i_q_u_e specification).  For
	the ESK theory in its final form Einstein decided that

		z1 (ESK) = 42

	...

Not to worry; the pure affine theory gives z1 = 300, so we don't have
the question to the ultimate answer yet.