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If a person gets 99 times tails by tossing a coin, is it that the 100th time when he tosses the coin, it will be tails ?

Most of you will think that it is based on luck.

But, if we calculate mathematically, lets say we toss a coin 1000 times in vacuum and every time we toss it, it reaches the same height and with the same side of the coin every time.
Lets toss it from heads, now suppose we get tails on the first time, then by above conditions we must get tails every time we toss it.
By scientific thinking, we can say there is no such thing as luck.

What do you think ?

2007-10-05 23:40:01 · 7 answers · asked by Mikhil M 2 in Science & Mathematics Physics

7 answers

If you follow two steps, then you will always be lucky:

1- Look for opportunities
2- Be always prepared


Nightingale once said : You will look fool if the opportunity comes and you are not well prepared for it.

Which means you will be unlucky

2007-10-06 00:14:15 · answer #1 · answered by best-doctor 2 · 0 0

There are laws of probability. These are used in the business of gamblig to calculate the odds of what will happen next. In throry the toss of a coin over a great many repeated events, will come up heads 50% of the time. Not do, aerodynamically there is a variation from the predicted.

In fact there is not really luck - it is just how many times you repeat the experiment or how many times you are participating in the event that determines the outcome.
The "Law of averages" rather than luck is the real determination of the outcome of a series of identical repitions

2007-10-05 23:52:34 · answer #2 · answered by organbuilder272 5 · 0 0

If the initial conditions are all known and all outside forces are known then any action can be predicted with absolute certainty, thus there is no "luck" or chaos. But knowing all of the initial conditions is daunting that is why you hear the line about the butterfly's wing in the rain forest of Brazil.

2007-10-05 23:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by Major Bob 4 · 0 0

Tthe fact that you give existence to head and tail of the Universe which in this case is a coin; Permits heads and tail to share their existance equally.
That means what is called probability is really a forced function. It has to exist that way.Does it really have a choice?
I hope this scientific explanation doesnt confuse you.

2007-10-06 00:29:02 · answer #4 · answered by goring 6 · 0 0

What is called luck in nonscientific language is called chance in the language of the science.

What you have logically thought of is an ideal condition which is hard to exist. So chance prevails over it.

2007-10-06 00:06:36 · answer #5 · answered by Madhukar 7 · 0 0

you can't say "if_______then ____will happen" because that's not luck. Luck just happens, it just like that. It just happens, but you can't rely on it ofcourse...otherwise you'll be screwed.

hope i helped!

2007-10-05 23:44:15 · answer #6 · answered by Chloe 1 · 1 0

you ever played poker?

2007-10-06 04:28:14 · answer #7 · answered by ago d 2 · 0 0

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