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03-14-2002, 11:47 AM
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It should be noted also that extremely small (even "supercosmically") improprobable events routinely occur. For instance the precise arrangement of atoms in a jar of oxygen is probably supercosmically improbable.
What "Borel's law" state is that it is impossible to predict a sufficiently improbable chance event. The contrapositive of that statment is, of course, that if one can predict an a low probability event, that event could not have occured by chance. The existence of some natural law is an obvious alternative. [ March 14, 2002: Message edited by: Malaclypse the Younger ]</p> |
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