<HTML>In a message dated 2/16/2002 11:45:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, cedel@supernet.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Oh, come on now.  That I will never believe.  Have you done scientific research to support such a conclusion? Regards, Clyde Hollinger </BLOCKQUOTE> Actually it stems from the scientific/mathematical study of chaos (no not what we feel everytime we have to go to work - the idea that two trajectories that start out almost exactly the same will appear to be unrelated after a period of time).  No, I'm not positive that the toss of a coin is the only thing... in fact, I think that computers can be programmed to run random numbers. But there are few things that are truly random. I'm sure this isn't the appropriate list to post this to, and I'm not a chaos theorist, but I will rarely say something I cannot back up - a least a little bit.  Check out James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science. (I've never sounded more like a nerd in my life!)</HTML>