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> The probabilistic analogy is flipping a billion coins and having them all come up heads. Flipping a billion coins and having them all come up heads does not h
by mlevental 9y ago
> The probabilistic analogy is flipping a billion coins and having them all come up heads. Flipping a billion coins and having them all come up heads does not have measure zero. It has a positive measure.
wut? 1. in each instance it's 1MM conditionally independent trials so i don't see the difference 2. any realization of any continuous random variable has measure zero
>Contrast this to measure zero events. Flipping infinitely many coins and having them all come up heads has measure zero.
you're playing fast and loose with the difference between a counting measure (no measure zero events) and a continuous/discrete measure.
anyway my point was exactly that quantum tunneling is counterintuitive exactly for the same reason that measure zero events are counterintuitive