> Anyway I think we basically say the same thing from the beginning but you're focusing > on the epsilon probability of reactions happening at low energy levels due to some > very rare spacial configurations of the electrons. When you deal with large > quantities, it's always easy to point at the epsilon, but it doesn't make the > statistical pattern any less true.
Yeah, possibly. One doesn't usually have to get involved for the cases when things are working as they should, only when they fail. And it's always easiest to remember the spectacular failures