Re: Can Events of Zero Probability Happen?

On Jan 12, 10:05 am, David C. Ullrich <ullr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

_If_ you're interested in resolving the difference between
you and the physicist you'd ask what I suggested you
ask and see what he says. Because it's possible that
he'd have no problem with "choose a real between 0 and
1 at random", and in that case you could explain why
he's simply _wrong_ about the impossibility of events
of probability zero happening.

Sure, on the face of it, it seems possible to reason with a physicist
that believes that conceptualizing events that occur with zero
probability is unfathomable. The problem is, he explicitly said that
even an event of incredibly small probability can't happen.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.foundations/msg/3d5630f2762edce6

Shubee

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