Do you believe that if something's probability is zero, is the possibility zero?

Question

Of course a first response is "no of course it can still happen even if it's chance is zero" And I know I'm adding emotion to science, But do you think that statement is true? I'm basically asking the converse of "if possibility is 0% than probability is 0"

Think of this stiuation, If i'm walking on the street, and I see some dog poopoo mixed with uranium, there is 0% chance no matter what that I will eat it, so therefore is it impossible for the event of me eating it to occur? I say it is impossible because the event will never happen, and it is impossible to prove it's possibility, so therefore it's impossible right?

Answer 1

Not a matter of belief. If you check the definition of probability & possibility, you will find that a zero probability cannot exist withiout the possibility also being zero.

Your example is one based on emotion. You say there is a 0% chance only because you cannot envision the circumstances that could cause it to happen. If it's possible, then there is some probability associated with the event no matter how small.

Answer 2

#1 there is not a 0% chance that you eat it because you have a will.
#2 when you say something has a 0% chance it means that it is impossible (usually natural things like for instance there is a 0% chance of anybody breaking the law of gravity)
#3 if something has a 0% chance of occuring, then it is the same as 0/100 and therefore if you did something 100 times hoping this impossible thing would happen, it would happen 0 times.


hope i was helpful

Answer 3

What god do you communicate of? i see god extra in a Buddhist experience. All is unquestionably one. The self is barely phantasm. All existence is recycled many times. merely inspect nature each and every thing dies and decomposes, and that very same cloth from th previous existence is used to make up plant life on different issues. plant life which would be eaten by employing animals, animals that in the process all possibility would be eaten by employing different animals. technology won't be able to clarify all, the place does all remember and ability come from? So sooner or later, by some potential all of it merely puffed recognized? Are minds at the instant are not even on the part of being able to understanding tru which potential, that i kno you're able to desire to study the e book-DMT:the spirit molecule....which shows the undeniable fact that psychedelic factors may be the respond in spite of each and every thing

Answer 4

To answer this question, I believe you need only look at
the answers given by many scientist's in the past:
No to man's ability to fly, no to walking on the moon or even
getting there. Even pushing further back....no to submarines,
no to possiblities of even going in a ship to cross the oceans
because monsters would eat them or they would drop off the
edge of the ocean. My answer....of course not.

Answer 5

there isnt 0% chance that you will eat it, your whole argument is based on something wrong