Today 12/12/12 was an appropriate day for the announcement of a Celani replication, no?
After all … the number twelve is special – it’s central to several of the world’s great religions and to the Western calendar– 12 months and so on. And this is the last day that we will have the month, day and year all having the same numbers (as conventionally shortened) until 01/01/01 or the next century: 2101. Not many of us will be around then, even if we get past 12/21/12. Twelve is a sublime number – having a perfect number of divisors, and the sum of its divisors is also a perfect number. But 12 itself is not quite perfect: there is a subset of 12's divisors that add up to 12 (but with 4 excluded) so 12 is a semi-perfect number. But it is superabundant. Superabundant numbers are also of interest in connection with the Riemann hypothesis and the zeta function. Riemann often comes up when mystical merges with science. Many numerologists were predicting something important happening today. But few if any would think that a potential replication of an underwhelmingly gainful experiment (Celani) makes this day important. Skeptics would probably say the shipment of the last box of Twinkies today - was a more important event LOL. Maybe something else will happen to make 12/12/12 even more sublime. Time will tell. Jones
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