Cyclical Luck

Al Mirpuri · #1 03-26-2003, 12:24 PM

This guy sounds like a sharp cookie. The horses are beatable but it takes study not just a glance at a racing mag that all the punters look at. Surprised your friend thought he could beat craps, though. But then, even Sir Isaac Newton held to the crackpot idea that base metal could be turned into gold.

DPCondit · #2 03-26-2003, 01:17 PM

I think he was in his craps phase before he "wised up".

Yes, beating the horses is hard work, and he has studied it more exhaustively than you may imagine, nothing easy about it at all. He made a lot of money in horses, then invested in real estate in Malibu, and that is where he really made a lot.

Don

AmericanAirlines · #3 03-27-2003, 05:20 PM

Base metal can be turned into gold... In a cyclotron.

Sincerely,
AA

SoBeDude · #4 04-17-2003, 10:58 PM

actually I don't think a cycletron will do it.

You need a heavy particle accelerator, like a proton synchrotron.

-Scott

AmericanAirlines · #5 04-22-2003, 07:45 PM

Hi SoBeDude,
Ah, but you get the idea. You *can* modify the nucleus of atoms with sufficient conditions.

So, lead to gold can happen.

Sincerely,
AA