[Newspoetry] RPK

[Mike Lehman]

OK Dr. Science; wanna experiment???
<http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/>

A complete stranger hands you a sealed envelope and asks you to choose
an number between one and fifty. A bit
puzzled, perhaps, you think for a moment and announce "twenty-eight".
The stranger scribbles this in a notebook,
tells you to open the envelope in two weeks, smiles, and disappears.

Two weeks later you open the envelope to find a piece of paper with "28"
printed neatly in the centre. Your mind
swims with possible explanations, including the possibility that it was
merely a coincidence. But a few days later, the
stranger reappears with another envelope, you choose another number, and
the sequence of events repeats. How
many times would this have to occur before you accepted that something
VERY STRANGE INDEED was going on?



I have my doubts about this idea, but you never know.
Mike