Friday, April 17, 2009

Your Daily Read

1. A history of chess by mail and telegraph; the first known game of chess by mail was in 1116 between Henry I of England and Louis VI of France!
2. Another victory for incompatibilism; subatomic particles have free will - "if the experimenter can freely choose the directions in which to orient his apparatus in a certain measurement, then the particle’s response (to be pedantic—the universe’s response near the particle) is not determined by the entire previous history of the universe."  

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