Mathematically speaking, the probability of finding your ‘soul mate’ is so small that it borders on the impossible.
How many times have you experienced this scene? In love, you look your beloved in the eyes and give him a deep kiss. Then they both laugh because just by looking at each other they remember a private joke that no one else in the world would understand. you say «how lucky we are to have found our ‘soul mate‘”.
Well, the truth is yes. NASA scientist Randall Munroe, in his book What If? (What if?), set to the task of doing this calculation, and found that the probability of finding the soul mate is 1 in 10,000. So if you believe in love at first sight, sit back and wait!
The writer, blogger and literary critic Maria Popova explains on her website the procedure that led the NASA scientist to this conclusion.
She explains that, based on the scientific methodMunroe began by calculating the number of souls that have passed through this life, and those to come. He then narrowed down the pool of souls to those who would live at the same time and whose age differences weren’t that great.
In addition, the NASA scientist calculated the number of people with whom we make eye contact per day (approximately a dozen) and concluded that less than 1% of the world’s population would be paired with their ‘soul mate’. Now, that your ‘soul mate’ corresponds to you, is another matter…
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A very grim forecast, if you believe in this, of course. By the way, do you believe in ‘soul mates’?