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: Your "major nit on question 59" is also wrong. British mathematicians did not crack the Enigma; Polish mathematicians did, and part of the decrypting was based on letter frequency. Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 22:04, 4 June 2009 (EDT)
: Your "major nit on question 59" is also wrong. British mathematicians did not crack the Enigma; Polish mathematicians did, and part of the decrypting was based on letter frequency. Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 22:04, 4 June 2009 (EDT)
== Action at a distance ==
SaraT and KSorenson (this is being sent to both):
I'm interested in working on the article about [[action at a distance]]. (Actually I'm busy working on many things about science and math, as a look at my [[Special:Contributions/PatrickD|contributions]] will show, but this particular issue has bubbled to the top of my agenda.) I'm confused about the ways this term is used. Since you both seem to be interested in the history of science, you might be able to shed some light on it.
The suggested meanings I have come across are:
#Exertion of force on an object that isn't in direct contact. This must be what it means in Newtonian gravity, right?
#Transmission of a force instantaneously, or, in any case, supraluminally. This doesn't seem to have been an issue with Newton, because the finite speed of light, and the causality consequences of that, weren't known at the time. Right?
#Consequences of "Quantum Entanglement". This seems to relate to supraluminal transmission of information, and is therefore related to #2. Right?
So which is it? Can either of you enlighten me? Or fix the article? (By the way, you both write very well.) [[User:PatrickD|PatrickD]] 22:28, 12 November 2009 (EST)