In Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider is attempting to replicate the Big Bang by repeatedly colliding opposing beams of protons or lead ions. It's really incredible stuff. And it gets you thinking about how many small coincidences and strokes of fate had to happen, over millions of years, for the Earth to eventually exist, and for it to be hospitable to human life. It's heady stuff, and it certainly puts everything into perspective.
I get this feeling every time I watch this clip - the series of events that would have had to follow each other, in precise timing, for that sprinting child to nearly get decapitated by that basketball is humbling. Bravo, unnamed basketball thrower. Bravo, running child. Bravo, anonymous, courageous cameraman. And bravo, Fate.
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