Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Inevitable probability

Say the odds of winning the power ball lottery are about 1 in 250 million.  Not too easy to pick 6 separate number to win the grand prize the way the game is played.  One can play the same 6 numbers including a separate number for the powerball  each game twice a week and never even get close to winning the jackpot in several life times.   How ever if you played the exact same number chosen or chose them at random before each drawing 1000 times a second for successive game events 1000 times per second you will be certain to win probably multiple times in a life time or a much shorter period of time in days, week, months or years.  Looking at a cosmological reality that is perhaps over 14 billion light years in diameter there is plenty of room  and time for just about anything possible to happen multiple times which is why seeing so many millions of nearly identical galaxies as far as the eye can see should be no surprise.  Probability of life elsewhere and different forms of life.  Inevitable.  That is not the point of the physics of probability as much as understanding how light behaves.  How it imprints it self within the spectrum and then radiates out into space until it eventually collides with mater either to be detected by being absorbed , reflected or ignored.  We see blue when all the rest of the visible light color components absorbed when blue is the only one ignored and or absorbed instantaneously and re-reflected or in passing though.  Only certain kinds of mater allow it to happen under certain conditions.  It is all about probability with the possibility existing in advance that mater will even be in the path way of light that travels as pure 'linear momentum" in straight lines.  This is how probability directs just about everything.  Energy and mass have to come together or find some way to do so with some lens to focus them together.

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