In the novel " The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" a quote that really struck me as interesting was " Sometimes a whole population of frogs, or worms, or people, can die for no reason whatsoever, just because that is the way the numbers work."
This quote was used to explain how many frogs there were in a certain ecosystem. With a equation and many variables, scientists found a way to predict the number of frogs in a certain area. But when the numbers where a certain way, they described it as being chaos. Unpredictable deaths for no reason. This amazed me that he compared this way of thinking to peoples lives. Is there a equation that can predict when large amounts of people will die? if people could determine when "chaos" would occure, what could they do to prevent it, or maybe they cant prevent it... What if numbers would eventually catch up to us, and somehow kill us?
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