Probability
Kai sat on a bench waiting for the bus, it was a spring day around eight years prior. Her father sat next to her, a tall man who always dressed in suits that were soaked in the order of tobacco smoked from a Nording pipe and the faint hint of whiskey. A so called mathematicians mathematician, Johann Fleischer was a man seemingly lost in a sea of numbers, stuck on a deserted island out in a sea of square roots and differential calculus. Johann however for a long time was one of the only people that could actually get his daughter to speak, to get through her crippling social anxiety issues and neurotic tendencies that would dictate her life for the next few years. Johann achieved this for he knew a secrete few others knew, the best way to speak to her was in the language she better understood that off numbers and equations.
Johann watched as the rain slowly drummed across the cool asphalt, the spring had been a wet one, since the first day the warmth had loosened the grip that winter held over Hope, it had been nothing but rain. Neighborhood flowerbeds had become pools of murky soil filled water, and the ever present puddles living long enough for the first signs of green life appearing within them. It was a Saturday and Johann had to go pick up one of his books he had left in his office, and he couldn't leave his daughter alone so he took her along with him to the trip to the university. The car had broken down two weeks ago and he had not found time to go and fix it yet, so they were stuck to the whims and mercy of the public transportation system. A grim fact that they were reminded of as they sat on the small bench at the bus stop waiting for a bench that would take fifteen more minutes to arrive then usually do to inadequate weather.
He turned his face towards that of his young daughter, her expression emotionless as the asphalt that the droplets smashed into. As usually she seemed to have drifted into her own little world, away from the worries of the world. Some called it a self defense mechanism of sorts but the aging professor just believed it to be children acting like children. Kai's attention was drawn away from whatever she was thinking off as she heard her father resulting around in his jacket pocket next to her. She looked on with a quizzical gaze as he produced a coin that he rested in the palm of his hand. He looked at his daughter and smiled as he brought forth an inquiry to her.
"What is the probability that when I flip this coin it will land on heads?" He asked her a small glint in his eyes.
Kai raised her eyebrow thinking this to be some sort of joke, for her father was not a man that asked simple questions. "it's a two sided coin... so one half." Kai responded resounded and triumphantly.
Johann nodded satisfied with her answer, "So what you are telling me is that once I began flipping this coin at some point, the coin must land on heads about 50 percent of t the time."
Kai nodded in agreement for it seemed like the most obvious well grounded conclusion.
Her father then continued "This argument you have presented seems perfectly sound in its reasoning, but unless we test it we have no certainly. And yet when one would test such a thing, one would find in most cases that this hypotheses to be true that in some instances, the contrary is true and the coin always falls on tails."
"But that is impossible! At some point it must land on heads unless you are cheating!" Kai proclaimed trying to defend her side of the opinion.
The professor just smiled as he toyed with the coin in his hand flipping it between the fingers. "But you see young one, the world is not a controlled box. The world is a highly randomized set leaning exclusively towards entropy, and that sometimes the least likely outcome will occur.. And this is where I want you to remember It is in these least likely events that we find the creation of us, our solar system, the universe. Our entire universe was created on improbabilities."
"But what does this matter with me? With a stupid coin?" Kai asked her father as in the distance she heard the bus coming down the rain slicked road.
"Well that is simple, to believe in the weight of the improbabilities, to believe in the impossible become the possible, gives one the ability to have the determination and the diligence to transcend the nested set of boundaries that restrict upon us." Johann told Kai as he slowly flipped the coin into the air, and the coin arced and sliced through the air the cold metal resting upon the ground.... heads face up.
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"The world is a highly randomized set leaning exclusively towards entropy, and that sometimes the least likely outcome will occur." Her father's words echoed in her ears as Dallas awoke from his coma. The likelihood of him ever awaking do to the severity of the crash and the length of time in which he had already been comatose was a very small number, and yet here he was slowly awaking. Kai watched as the face of Mrs. Robertson light up with happiness. For the two might have had a rocky relationship to say the least, she did care about her son. KaI slipped through the crowd of excited murmurers as she told the newly awaken patient,
"Congratulations, you managed to be so pretentious that not even death wanted to deal with you." She explained with a small smile on her face as she stepped back away from the hospital bed and towards a nice unmanned corner of the room, in which she could dwell in for just a few moments, just to escape from the gathering crowd and give herself some breathing room, crowds, tight spaces and strangers not being a thing she likes to deal with too often.
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