This chapter was made by me, I was inspired by the Hebrew podcast "making history" or "עושים היסטוריה (osim historia)"

The podcast is very well made and because of his success in Hebrew the creator has made an English version.
I'm not sure how it called but if you want you can search "making history" on the podcasts application.

Thank you and I hope you'll enjoy this chapter!

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Hello and welcome to another chapter of "the science of the universe" about luck!

Luck
What is luck?
What is the meaning of being a lucky or unlucky person?
That's a simple question that has a huge complication behind it.
Here's an example;

Few months ago I was at my parent's friend's wedding...
Me and the crowd was standing near the stage where the rabi (I'm a atheist Jew, a rabi is like a priest but for Jews) and the engaged couple was standing.
As the usual ceremony, the husband says some words and then smashes a glass with his leg and then kisses the bride.
So does in this wedding.
But after the glass was smashed, a huge piece of glass flew really fast and passed right next to my left eye but missed it with like 2 centimeters.
I remember I saw the glass clearly, but it all happened so fast I didn't have enough time to blink.
I think you all would agree with me, that I was very lucky, 2 centimeters to the right I would become half blind.
But you say I'm lucky because you know me as a living creature with wishes, feelings, goals that's wanting to keep seeing in 3D.
If I was telling you the same story but instead of me I was saying there was something without life like a giant rock which was standing next to the stage.
I don't really think you would called the rock "lucky", cause a rock doesn't have wishes, feelings or goals, even if it's a rock that costs 20,000$, well you know... a decorative rock for weddings...

In other words.
The fact that someone is "lucky" isn't really an objective fact that is becoming because of things that randomly happens, but more an subjective feeling of all of us about what is luck and what counts as good or bad luck.

In this and the next three chapters chapter I'll tell you 4 different stories, real stories, about 4 different peoples, that had really bad luck, or that just was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
These stories will help us learn something about luck and maybe even about the fruits of the human psychologic.

Let's start!
I wish us good luck...

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Roy Salivan, was a forest inspector on the national park "shanandoa" that's in the United States of American.
At 1942 Salivan, who was still a newbie at the inspectorate, was picked to watch the forest from a high guarding building.
One night there was a lightning storm at the place and Salivan was supposed to notify the firefighters of the park about some fires that may be caused by the lightning bolts hits on the trees.
The bolts did hit, but mostly the guarding building where Salivan was.
First hit.
Second hit.
Third hit.
Forth hit And fifth hit.
After the sixth hit of the bolts at the building, Salivan decided that it's too dangerous for him to stay there.
He was about to go down the ladder and go away, but as his leg was touching the first step, a lightning bolts hit Salivan directly, the electrical energy moved through his body and got out from his toe cutting it off.
Even tho the injury Salivan was alive.
He heeled and got back to work.
The years passed and at 1969 Salivan was driving a truck on one of the park's roads when there was a lightning storm.
A bolt jotted one side of the road, got into the truck from an open window, hit Salivan, and got out from the other window.
The hit shocked Salivan and he lost his conscience...
After a while when he woke up he realized that the truck steered away from the road and stopped literally at a cliff edge.
The bolt burned his eyelashes and eyebrows but luckily didn't cost any further damage.
Now, as the accepted statistics, the chances of a man to be hit by a lightning bolt in his life, is about 1 to 10,000...
Which means that the chances of being hit by a lightning bolt 2 times in life is 1 to 10,000, squared.
Or 1 to 100,000,000...
So the chances of Salivan to be hit by lightning bolts twice, looks really small...
But in a statistical point of view, in a state with over 300,000,000 people, it's normal to think that a unlikely a man will be hit twice...
Plus
The national park that Salivan worked at is placed at a mountains that ha very bad weather so the chances he'll get hit IS bigger then the average person...
But at the next year, 1970, Salivan was hit again, at the third time.
The bolt hit a near by electric wire and splashed on him, and even burned his shoulder skin...
Two more years passed, and another lightning bolt hit him, his hair caught on fire, and luckily he succeeded to turn it off before he was burned heavily.

4 lightning hits at the same person?
What are the chances that that will happen?
Salivan became almost paranoid.
He even carried a water bucket to everywhere he has gone.
The next time Salivan saw storm clouds he didn't risk, he got into the truck to run away for his life.
When he was gone far enough from the storm, he got out of the truck, closed the door, and stood outside to rest.
Another bolt hit him and send him flying.
His hair set on fire again and Salivan ran to his truck, took the water bucket and spilled it on his head putting out the fire, the paranoia helped him...
At the sixth time a bolt hit Salivan at 1976 the forest inspector decided that he had enough, he packed his stuff and gone to a vacation...
After a year while sitting on a edge of a lake and was fishing, the seventh lightning bolt hit again...
And maybe as a "grand finale" of bad luck, when Salivan was crawling to his car shocked and injured...
A giant bear attacked him...
Salivan survived this too...
He died at 1981 in age 71...

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You may think I'm faking this stories but I'm not
It's all truth...

*the chances that you'll get hit 7 times by a lightning bolt are 1 to 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Sadly, this is the end of the first part about luck.
I really hoped you enjoyed it
I'll try to update soon!
Bye!

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