Quote Originally Posted by mojo
What I don't like is the assertion that improbable things don't happen.
Well, they do, it's just that they happen so rarely, and for an exceedingly small amount of time. For all I know, all the air molecules in the room might well have just occupied a part of the room where I'm not sitting for a couple of Planck seconds, but I certainly wouldn't notice because I have more than enough oxygen in my lungs to survive that amount of time in a vacuum, and I doubt there exists a tool I could use to measure such an event. In fact, it's entirely possible that this event consistently happens hundreds or even thousands of times a second, it's just it's not happening 10^something times a second, so we don't and probably can't observe it.