Main Entry: 1chance
Pronunciation: 'chan(t)s
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin cadentia fall, from Latin cadent-, cadens, present participle of cadere to fall; perhaps akin to Sanskrit sad- to fall off
1 a : something that happens unpredictably without discernible human intention or observable cause b : the assumed impersonal purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings : LUCK c : the fortuitous or incalculable element in existence :
There is a lake, and there is a (suspended)chemical in it of 2 ppm. There is a stream pouring into it, and a dam that forms it. It doesn't matter the size of the lake, or amount of water pouring into it. But eventually this chemical would be washed out, or would it.
The amount of time it washes out, is that chance. The fact that maybe a molecule might not ever get washed out, is that chance, or the fact that it may indeed get washed out, is that chance. Is it chance that any three of these options would happen.
Are any of these chance?
Does chance really exist?
Or is chance a word we use to explain what cannot be explained because we don't know how it all works, or we don't really understand the laws of the universe?
I am no scientist, and this topic may have been covered already, but I would like to discuss it, and share knowledge/thoughts about it.
:note to admin, I am not sure what forum to suggest, but please not the coffee house.
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