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Thread #160033 Message #3795408
Posted By: DMcG
13-Jun-16 - 04:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Logic and the laws of science
Subject: RE: BS: Logic and the laws of science
Yes, it could, but there is no current way to decide one way or the other.
Many decades ago, garages came up with a wheeze to try to get you to visit the same company each time. They gave you one half of, say, a fifty pound note and if you got the other half on another visit you exchanged them for the actual cash. And for the low denomination values this happened. But for the high values what happened was that people placed adverts in the local papers saying "I have the left half of a hundred pound note. I will split the winnings with anyone who has the right hand half".
But the flaw in their reasoning is they imagined the company printed equal numbers of each half. In practice they printed lots of say the left hand side and almost none of the right.
The relevance of that little tale is there is no reason to assume the amount of lefthandedness and righthandedness should balance. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.