chanciness

Thus insofar as there are some future possibilities left open by the arrangements of particles in our brains, they are settled by nothing more than the random chanciness implicit in quantum mechanics.

It’s not just the chanciness of sample preparation; it’s also the lack of access that frustrates Claudio Grosman, a biophysicist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who studies a membrane protein in muscle cells and neurons that binds to nicotine and other drugs.

No showing of the work can ever be the same: the sheer chanciness of its construction makes it an embodiment of perpetual possibility and change.

There is another protozoan, called blepharisma, telling a long story about the chanciness and fallibility of complex life.

During this season, the liturgy forces the faithful to regard without blinking their mortality and worse: the chanciness of everything.