In January, two researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, (and the journalists who wrote about them) spurred a firestorm by writing in Science that much of cancer is due to "bad luck," or random mistakes that take place when cells divide.
Patients with fatalistic health locus of control beliefs are convinced that their health state is influenced by fate, luck or random events.
I am sure there is a lot of random luck to the whole phenomena.
Crucially though, a few of them will, by random luck (maybe bad luck from the neutrinos' point of view) collide with normal matter, some of it (by good luck from the physicists' point of view) the matter inside the NOνA far detector, which can measure what kind of neutrinos they were.
"It is only random luck that I am still here.
Of course, there was more than a bit of random luck involved, too".
There is a sense, too, of small-timeness, of everybody understanding the random luck of being hired by a rich man.
Of course, if there are enough competing stories, some of them will fit or predict some real-world events, if only because of random luck.
But don't think it's merely random luck that the Spurs were the team that came away with the win in all three of those close games.
