the series, I don’t know. In terms of the single event, however, the odds are still fifty-fifty. Our next question is crucial. How much influence or effect does chance have on the coin’s turning up heads? My answer is categorically, “None whatsoever.” I say that emphatically because there is no possibility, real or imagined, that chance can have any influence on the outcome of the coin toss. Why not? Because chance has no power to do anything. It is cosmically, totally, consummately impotent. Again,