Ben Jones: “The statement ‘there’s still a chance, right?’ is mathematically valid in pretty much every case.”
Exactly. The best answer would have been something like: “There’s stil a chance for everything. There is no such thing as zero probabilities in the real world. Maybe I can cure everybody’s cancer by wishing for it very, very hard. Sure, this thought violates everything we know about physics, but there is still a chance, no?”
Ben Jones: “The statement ‘there’s still a chance, right?’ is mathematically valid in pretty much every case.”
Exactly. The best answer would have been something like: “There’s stil a chance for everything. There is no such thing as zero probabilities in the real world. Maybe I can cure everybody’s cancer by wishing for it very, very hard. Sure, this thought violates everything we know about physics, but there is still a chance, no?”