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   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Liz Tuddenham  wrote:   
      
   > Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   > > The most dramatic demonstration of the Pauli Effect happened when he   
   > > wasn't actually in the room. Somebody was complaining at a conference   
   > > that an experiment had stopped working for a couple of hours - "as if   
   > > Pauli had stepped into the lab, but he wasn't even in Munich at the   
   > > time" and Pauli admitted that he had been stuck in train in Munich for a   
   > >   couple of hours that day while going somewhere else.   
   >   
   > That sounds as though it was proof of the quantum effect.   
      
   It was part of a huge and proplonged practical joke.   
   (by Gamow and some others)   
   Pauli just loved it, and helped to keep it up,   
      
   Jan   
      
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