In article <1994Dec12.232248.6380 at ttinews.tti.com>, jackson at soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson) writes:
|> In article <3cd7rb$84a at vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> jr7877 at cesn12.cen.uiuc.edu (Jason V Robertson) writes:
|> >In article <1994Dec10.181117.23351 at blaze.trentu.ca> csack at ivory.trentu.ca writes:
|> >>In article <3c6ski$5cf at due.unit.no>, aka at nvg.unit.no (Anne Karin Amundgaard) writes:
|> >>
|> >>>I have also heard a story about girls living close together. After a
|> >>>while they will get their period simultaneously! If humans have got
|> >>>sex-pheromone receptors, I don't know, but this story make it seem very
|> >>>possible.
|> >>
|> >
|> >Well, if you put two pendulums (out of sync) in the same room, they will
|> >eventually swing in sync also. I don't think they have pheromone receptors.
|>|> Putting as politely as I can, your statement is in general, absolutely
|> untrue, and therefore unhelpful to this topic. Two pendulums of similar
|> period, if coupled, do behave cooperatively, but the resulting effect is
|> more complicated than "swinging in sync".
|>|> Dick Jackson
With regard to the question of girls living in close proximity: there is experimental evidence to back this up; when a friend and I were playing around with coupled chaotic systems a while ago, my friend's supervisor gave us a reference to a few papers on this subject (thinking that maybe it was an example of coupled chaotic systems). I only read the abstracts, and I'm sorry I can't remember the references, but they indicated that this had been consistently shown experimentally.
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