Oxford Phenomenon - systematically reproducible coincidence.
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Every Friday and Saterday during 2006-2008 TESCO part-time trader attracted from 5 000 to 10 000 people per day. All attempts to explain, to control or to stop it were unsuccessful. Human activists, UFO hunters, mana theorists and sceptical customers collected the most precise statistics of such phenomenon day- per- day 2006-2008. Statistics in particularly suggests that this kind of impossible concidence has a similarity with so-called macroscopic quantum-like games where winner has a sort of quantum device against classical players... Being anthropologist I described such phenomenon in article published in Los Alamos e-prints arXiv ( Popov M.A. P vs NP problem in the field anthropology - arXiv 0904.3074 (2009 ))
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:19:52 +0000Coincidence ID:6991
