Nitpicking but bullets colliding isn't an extremely rare event
You don't look at the odds of two specific bullets colliding during a battle, you look at the odds of any two bullets colliding, and it turns out that is quite high when there are millions of bullets firing every which way.
Same as the whole “chances of two people in a room sharing a birthday” thing
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Romcom trailer voice:
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Well if both sides have slingers and they sling at each other at the same time it seems pretty likely to me. I don't think sling bullets would weld together from the impact though.
Newtonian physics has no framework for the simultaneous collision of three
particlesbullets.
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Name something more unlikely than 1 in a billion? How about... three bullets colliding in the battle of Gallipoli in 1915? Or any two given humans getting married?
2 random elderly Asian men shooting up Chinese New Year's celebrations within the same day
you have a 1 in 4 chance of being struck by a neutrino during your lifetime. this will cause you absolutely no harm, and you will not notice it, but it's pretty neat regardless.
Only 1 in 4 of it ever happening to you? I thought it would more common than that.
About yeah. The interaction rate of neutrinos is incredibly low for the garden variety the sun is constantly hitting you with. You can actually take a photo of the sun through the earth with neutrinos because of how little the interact. The superkamiokande experiment did it most recently I think. On average, an electron neutrino will go a light-year through lead before interacting.
Oh so it’s still passing through you, just not hitting any of your matter? Somehow that makes both more sense and less.
No don't misunderstand, there's a 1 in 4 chance it will hit your matter in your lifetime. There's millions of them constantly passing through you all the time.
Yeah, the latter is what I was thinking initially, so it makes more since that they are passing through you like I thought. But at the same time being bombarded with millions of particles and none of them actually hitting your matter is pretty insane.
widespread class consciousness in the United States
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