Beyond Coincidence: Amazing Stories of Coincidence and the Mystery and Mathematics Behind Them - Hardcover

Plimmer, Martin; King, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312340362 ISBN 13: 9780312340360

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005

Synopsis

Ever wonder what the odds are of being struck by lightning?
Or winning the lottery?
Or meeting someone from Timbuktu with the same middle name as you?

BEYOND COINCIDENCE recounts and analyzes over 200 amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of:

Laura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon from her back yard. It lands 140 miles away in the backyard of another Laura Buxton, also age ten.

Two sisters in Alabama decide, independently, to visit the other. En route, their identical jeeps collide and both sisters are killed.

A British cavalry officer was fighting in the last year of World War One when he was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning. He was paralyzed from the waist down. The man moved to Vancouver, Canada where, six years later, while fishing in a river, lightning struck him again, paralyzing his right side. Two years later, he was sufficiently recovered to take walks in a local park when, in 1930, lightning sought him out again, this time permanently paralyzing him. He died soon after. Four years later, lightning destroyed his tomb.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Coincidence?

Or something beyond coincidence?

Is someone playing with us?

Could it be God?

Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, hyper-aware of our hyper-connected universe whose web-like workings we can only dimly discern?

From magic and religion to subatomic particles and the laws of probability, BEYOND COINCIDNECE deeply explores the roots of luck, odds and circumstance while telling amazing stories that will have you shaking your head

About the Author:

Martin Plimmer is a journalist, broadcaster and author of the fictionalized memoir King of the Castle. Once, while in the waiting room of a hospital after banging his head, Martin found a two-year-old magazine open at an article he had written on the subject of headaches.

Brian King is an award-winning pioneer of radio fly-on-the-wall documentaries; the producer of hundreds of programs for BBC Radio, including the long-running series On the Ropes and also, coincidentally, presented by Martin Plimmer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312340362
• ISBN 13: 9780312340360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288