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Old 10-26-2010, 08:56 PM   #124
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Bah, humbug!
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Originally Posted by nyrath View Post
Well, yes. But by the same token all the air molecules in the room could coincidentally move to the far side of the room, suffocating you. But nobody is going to worry about it.

The point is "Never say 'never', say 'highly unlikely' instead"
For that matter, there's no reason why I couldn't walk through a wall. If all the atomic particles in my body and all the atomic particles in the wall just happened to be aligned just right, it could happen.

But I'm not going to try the experiment any time soon. The odds against its success are astronomical.
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