hundred experiments an hour - you will have a section of several needles that just start
spinning in a synchronous fashion until it finally dies out. Eventually it will settle down in
one of the two stable states.
If you set up an (NxN) array of this sort, and then poke the thing with a bar magnet, I
challenge any IBM machine to compute what will happen. The interactions are now
exceedingly complicated.
We expect that something akin to this goes on at the molecular level when an organism detects
an EMF. As Szent-Gyorgyi said (15): "Single molecules are not necessarily sharply isolated and closed
units. There is more promiscuity among them [than] is generally believed."
1 Procrustes lived in ancient Greece, and it was his practice to make travelers conform in length to his
bed. If they were too short he stretched them and if they were too long he chopped off their legs. Later,
Procrustes wrote a learned paper entitled "On the Uniformity of Stature of Travelers."
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