Show me some that proves it doesn't - you're the one making the claim.

I'm countering a post from your buddy that says sean long's injuries are down to luck. Luck doesn't exist, I don't need to prove it, but if it did then I doubt there'd be any casinos or bookies still in business and there'd be people who were multiple lottery winners.

Are you a quantum physicist as well now



I think you're getting luck mixed up with chance

Luck has little or nothing to do with winning stuff at casinos or with bookies because these aren't random events. All you've proven so far is that you don't know what luck is. And I've even explained it in my earlier posts.

It's not my particular specialism but I've studied it.


That's because they're the same thing. Or rather one is what humans tend to call the outcomes of the other.

I don't know what luck is because there is no such thing. Events are not random

But that beneficiary puts themselves in the position to be beneficiary by choice somewhere along the line. Things do happen which may be out of a person's control at a given point in time but the concept of luck is laughable

We will be lucky if this doesnt get locked for going OT

Time for bed me thinks. Going right over my head!!


But is Longy lucky or not?


Surely cant be, or his bets would always pay out!!

Happy Easter .

Think you may have to ask your learning disabilities nurse to give you a hand posting on here honey...hope you had a nice easter and never ate all your eggs at once mind.

Eh? What on earth were you thinking here, then?

sometimes cause and effect can come back to bite you!

That does not have to mean ‘luck’ or randomness exists.

It may be seen as luck and randomness, simply because it is way beyond man’s inability to understand and/or explain.

Or just bad luck.

There then must be at least two actions for there to be a beneficiary.

You might not be able to control action 'a' but you may be able to predict action 'a'
You can control action 'b', so then the consequence for the beneficiary would be different.

What you're describing is purely an unlikely event happening. No matter how unlikely the event, if you are put in the scenario enough times then it will happen. it's probability, not luck. If it is probable that something may happen, no matter how low that probability is, then how can it possibly be luck when it does? it's just a possible outcome happening

Fair play, that was before I watched professor Brian Cox and he explained the concept of infinite universesicon_lol.gif

Indeed, but I think kosh is struggling to understand. Unusual for a former quantum physicist

I'm not the one struggling to understand stuff.

Let's all be friends today.

It's quite a simple concept. Every decision we make, either consciously or subconsciously has a number of potential outcomes. Sometimes a small number which is easy for people to understand, or possibly a near infinite number, which is a more difficult thing to get your head around.

The fact is that if you do something which has even a tiny chance of happening (say 1 in a billion), then it may still happen and no matter how improbable that outcome is then when it happens it has nothing to do with luck, but is merely an improbable event occuring