Chance is fundamental to the way the universe works, from the evaporation of black holes to the "ghost in the machine" that creates the illusion of consciousness.
Einstein said "God does not play dice with the universe" because he know the science was telling him the opposite: god DOES play dice with the universe.
Einstein turned out to be wrong about several things, most famously for refusing to accept what would become the Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics. That "God does not play dice..." quote is the most false thing he ever said, in my opinion. So I agree strongly with @Fardragon .
A friend of mine used to run a bar. A couple of winters ago she was attacked by some drink-addled, little pipsqueak as she went for a cigarette after refusing to serve him. When the perfectly-sober, MMA trained bouncer stepped in, he slipped on the ice & broke his leg.
Drunken, reeling pipsqueak kicked him in the head and left without a scratch (until the police picked him up off the CCTV).
Chance plays a part in real life fighting.
Fuck, give me Insightfuls for an inability to read! Everybody else is getting them here. I've said there was an extremely small chance of unexpected events, didn't I? So this happened on a blue moon, he broke his leg. Poor guy. How many tens of thousands if not millions of times bouncers in a situation like this have calmly beaten up people? Make a die with one million sides and roll it to represent fighting in a realistic way or leave dice out of it completely. And even when something like this does happen, it's not quantum mechanics. Laws of the microworld are not applicable to the macroworld, if you know any physics at all.
A friend of mine used to run a bar. A couple of winters ago she was attacked by some drink-addled, little pipsqueak as she went for a cigarette after refusing to serve him. When the perfectly-sober, MMA trained bouncer stepped in, he slipped on the ice & broke his leg.
Drunken, reeling pipsqueak kicked him in the head and left without a scratch (until the police picked him up off the CCTV).
Chance plays a part in real life fighting.
His name may have been Jackie Chan or he may have had a Drunken Master feat too, in which case there'd be no chance to the encounter outcome. Although there'd be a chance to the probability of encounter itself. I guess Einstein was right, it really is all relative.
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Einstein said "God does not play dice with the universe" because he know the science was telling him the opposite: god DOES play dice with the universe.
Eh, I'm out of here.