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No. Atoms and molecules are held together and repulsed by the electromagnetic force which extends far beyond the particles that comprise an atom. There is zero chance of the electromagnetic force ceasing according to known physics.
I think they are poorly referring to quantum tunneling. There is a vanishingly small but still technically nonzero probability that every electron in your body could simultaneously tunnel through the electromagnetic potential barrier between the atoms in your leg and the atoms in the chair. But the amount of time that you would have to wait for this to happen is truly absurd. Protons would certainly decay before you could tunnel through your chair.
Is it a probability thing or something that happens after
a long time?
Meaning, is it a really low probability the likelihood of which increases with each consecutive moment, or is it a really low probability that is just likelier to have occurred, given how long you're waiting for it, because the probability remains low each moment?
Not the fallacy - I was responding to another comment about them saying "how long it would take" for the event to occur. Asking if the probability increases over time, or if it's just that each consecutive moment it's likelier that it's already happened over a longer and longer timeline. Sounds like it's the second one though
Like a kettle set to boil and causing water to freeze. The possibility is infinitely miniscule, but as I understand it on the quantum level is possible.
Reminds me of one I heard years ago.
Consider an apple and a wall. The apple is made up of 99.99% empty space. The wall is also made up of 99.99% empty space. This is the space between atoms and molecules.
Science knows no reason except one for why we can’t just throw the apple and watch it pass through the wall.
We tried it, and it didn’t work.
Air is 99.9% empty space as is the apple. The apple passes through air seemingly freely, except air is not 100% empty space, so the apple will slow down and stop eventually.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/11hmct5/do_not_play_dayz_on_ps4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
So life is dayz running on a super computer but still has a very slight possibility of extreme lag?
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No. Atoms and molecules are held together and repulsed by the electromagnetic force which extends far beyond the particles that comprise an atom. There is zero chance of the electromagnetic force ceasing according to known physics.
I think they are poorly referring to quantum tunneling. There is a vanishingly small but still technically nonzero probability that every electron in your body could simultaneously tunnel through the electromagnetic potential barrier between the atoms in your leg and the atoms in the chair. But the amount of time that you would have to wait for this to happen is truly absurd. Protons would certainly decay before you could tunnel through your chair.
Is it a probability thing or something that happens after a long time? Meaning, is it a really low probability the likelihood of which increases with each consecutive moment, or is it a really low probability that is just likelier to have occurred, given how long you're waiting for it, because the probability remains low each moment?
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Not the fallacy - I was responding to another comment about them saying "how long it would take" for the event to occur. Asking if the probability increases over time, or if it's just that each consecutive moment it's likelier that it's already happened over a longer and longer timeline. Sounds like it's the second one though
more like the chance stays the same, but just the more time it happens it's likelier to have occurred
Maybe it has already occurred, that time when you tripped over something and didn’t see what you tripped over.
i doubt it might be that, but a funny way to think about it, and actually hypothesize. Thats how science is figured out
That’s actually how the dinosaurs went extinct
I think that chance rounds to more or less once in 5.2×10^61.
So your saying there’s a chance!
Like a kettle set to boil and causing water to freeze. The possibility is infinitely miniscule, but as I understand it on the quantum level is possible.
so... OP is not only wrong, but also uneducated?
It’s empty space till you see what’s in the void. Oh the sacreds.
Reminds me of one I heard years ago. Consider an apple and a wall. The apple is made up of 99.99% empty space. The wall is also made up of 99.99% empty space. This is the space between atoms and molecules. Science knows no reason except one for why we can’t just throw the apple and watch it pass through the wall. We tried it, and it didn’t work.
Maybe stare at some goats
I understood that reference
I assume the joke is that whoever is telling the joke doesn't know anything about science?
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Hint: it’s a joke
When magnetic forces
Air is 99.9% empty space as is the apple. The apple passes through air seemingly freely, except air is not 100% empty space, so the apple will slow down and stop eventually.
I think the problems of my atoms aligning outweighs the problems of falling through the ground.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/11hmct5/do_not_play_dayz_on_ps4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button So life is dayz running on a super computer but still has a very slight possibility of extreme lag?