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Letter: Elephant analogy

Published 1 September 2010

From Luke Savva

The simile comparing gravity to an elephant, unaware of quantum fluctuations, or “microbes”, on its skin (15 May, p 9) appeared in the same issue as Feedback’s illumination of the meaning of numbers via elephant-related metaphors. The amount of amusement arising from this concordance was equivalent to [number of elephants] [unlikely situation] [relevant units].

King's Newton, Derbyshire, UK

Issue no. 2776 published 4 September 2010

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