Hi Jim, and all,

I liked Jim's humorous post and I apologize for confusing him or anyone else on the list.  It is difficult to communicate complicated things and while I am trying my best, I see that I am not getting the ideas across as well as I’d like.  A good friend of mine, recently elevated to the distinguished rank of “emeritus” faculty in Neurobiology at Cornell, today sent me the lyrics to a song by another professor (Tom Lehrer), and it is sadly funny and apropos to my struggle to communicate here, so I am sharing it for you to enjoy too:

http://www.haverford.edu/astronomy/songs/lehrer/professor.htm

I will try in another post to be as clear as I can be and attempt to clear up confusion.  It would of course help if people read through the whole string of posts, as the calculations I did today depend on a lot of material I already conveyed.  However, summaries are valuable so, I'll summarize succinctly, and again, I'll try my best!

Christina

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