On Nostradamus and Statistical Probabilities

By Alex De Mostafa

Everyone knows that it’s inconceivable to foresee the future. Well, believers in astrology, tarot cards, psychic powers, black magic, crystal balls, and so forth, can take exception to this but their beliefs have been in general discredited by the world's scientific community. Indeed, to tell in advance a future event with finish accuracy and full self-assurance would basically implicate calculating the long-term fundamental interaction of each atom in the nearby universe, without doubt or question an inconceivable task.

For the opposite viewpoint, the divinations of Nostradamus come into proof. Surely, whether or not any person has ever foreseen the future, it will undeniably have to be history's most renowned seer, no? Unfortunately, the Nostradamus divinations are unmanageable to assess because they’re mostly written in code. Thus, Nostradamus' goal to be attained could not have been to tell in advance the future but only to reflect that he knew the future. And we can’t blame him for writing his divinations in code because not only is it deemed inconceivable to recognise the future, it’s similarly unrealistic to make open divinations with regards to individuals and then suppose those divinations to becoming a reality. For example, let's expect that Nostradamus had published the next foretelling: In the year 1969 Neil Armstrong will die a horrid death in a crash landing on the surface of the Moon. What do you think would have took place? Surely, in 1969, Neil Armstrong would have foregone that trip to the Moon and the foretelling would self-destruct.

Nostradamus, notwithstanding, slipped up here and there. In rather a small amount of places he apparently forgot to employ his code and wrote lines that seem slightly intelligible to the intermediate individual. One such line was the next: The Senate of London shall put their King to death. Nostradamus passed from physical life in 1566 and in 1649 the English Parliament executed their king, Charles I, in London. This is the sole line of this or alike theme in the divinations, so it was Nostradamus' one and only shot at it. There were a good deal of cities globally even in the 16th century so he surely got lucky picking London. Of course, it didn’t have to be a king who passed from physical life. It could have been the queen, a prince, a bishop, or whoever. Likewise, Parliament didn’t have to be the executioner. It could have been nearly any person. And Nostradamus didn’t have to utilize the expression put to death. He could have picked a fewer offensive verb like imprison or dethrone. He even got lucky on numbering this foretelling 49 (of the ninth Century) from that time of the event occurred in 1649. In stats, the opportunity of every component in a series multiply out. The probabilities of all these components coming together in the right way are exceedingly remote, but let's get conservative and say the odds are only 1,000 to 1, still high odds but well within the realm of absolute coincidence.

Moving forward from 1649, Nostradamus in an unambiguous manner pertains to the Great Fire of London, where three the six alludes to the year 1666. Moving forward again, we come to the Glorious Revolution of London and here Nostradamus without doubt or question states that a person from Holland (William III) are going to be elected King of England. What? The English electing a non-Englishman to be their king? And once again he got lucky on the numbering. He numbered that foretelling 89 (of the fourth Century) and the event occurred in 1689.

One should not think that Nostradamus' visionary reach was fixed to the 17th century. Let's now advance all the way to the 20th century: The King of Persia shall be taken by those of Egypt. Nostradamus is surely a long way from home on this one. In 1979, the Shah of Iran, fleeing the Muslim revolution in his country, was given refuge by the government of Egypt. The right individual, the proper countries, and the proper verb (with a more sensitive verb like killed or captured, the foretelling fails). And from there we may advance to the early 21st century: From the sky shall come a smashing king of terror.

Overall, phenomena of the type just cited appear in forty-two of Nostradamus' nine hundred and forty-two divinations. So, carefully, whether or not the odds versus every one are a 1,000 to 1, the cumulative odds versus the entire thing being pure coincidence are 1,000 to the forty-second power. That's a one followed by a few hundred zeros, which, after deducting the nine hundred failures, would still exceed the number of stars in the known universe. At this point we stand beyond the reach of plausible coincidental feeling of satisfaction. It is no longer a question of if the future was foreseen. It is now a question of how it was done.

Does the above mentioned infer that Nostradamus was capable to foresee the future using his brass tripod like he said he did? Hardly, and there could be an comprehensible statement in the end grounded on science and applied science instead of on the occult arts. People tend to think of the Nostradamus divinations plainly in terms of divinations of future events. They ordinarily don’t look at the possibleness that divinations may similarly be utilized to provide other types of information.

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About The Author
Morten St. George is an ancient astronaut investigator and author of the Nostradamus-related book mortenstgeorge.info/a_guide_to_cryptic_think ing.htmlâ€>Incantation of the Law Against Inept Critics. More information on the theme of the current article can be found at mortenstgeorge.info/aliens_and_the_parallel_ universe.htmlâ€>Aliens and the Parallel Universe.