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the universe's loophole — proof that nothing was ever fully scripted.

means The possibility that something may or may not happen, often by luck rather than design.

from From Latin 'cadere,' to fall, by way of the Vulgar Latin 'cadentia' — literally 'a falling,' as of dice tumbling across a table. It rolled through Old French 'cheance' before landing in English. So at its root, chance is simply how the dice come down: the world dropping into one shape rather than another.

word origin
from Latin cadere, meaning to fall, like dice
in physics
quantum events happen without any cause at all
survival math
your existence required odds near zero, yet here
second one
rarely offered, almost never taken on time
games
casinos profit because chance favors patience over players
for instance

chance the rapper — chicago hip-hop artist who won 3 grammys in 2017 without a major label deal

chance operations — compositional method used by john cage starting in 1951 using dice and i ching

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