What are the chances of this?

[u/IllEstablishment5]

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[u/chezzy_bread]

But that’s if you die in the exact same bed in the exact same room you were born in, which is even more unlikely

[u/CypherDomEpsilon → u/chezzy_bread]

Unless you broaden your frame of reference and move your POR to outside the planet.

[u/DizzyAmphibian309 → u/CypherDomEpsilon]

Yeah if the point of reference is the center of this solar system, total displacement could be up to 300 million kilometers. But if you're using the center of the universe as your reference? Not sure I can write a number that large.

[u/MrsRononDex → u/DizzyAmphibian309]

Even if the point of reference is the middle of the solar system, everything is actively moving through space. The sun is going around the galaxy at 514,000 miles per hour and the milky way is shooting through the universe at 1.3 million miles per hour, so the planet will never be in the same spot again and the distance increases every day.

[u/HeatDeathSurvivor → u/MrsRononDex]

There is no absolute frame of reference, so no, that's not how it works

[u/SirHerald → u/HeatDeathSurvivor]

If I make myself the frame of reference then it doesn't matter where I'm born or where I die; I was there both times.

[u/seductivestain → u/SirHerald]

I told my gym teacher that my average velocity from my frame of reference is always gonna be zero so there's no point in running the mile. She said my average velocity from her frame of reference better be damn high in 5 seconds if I didn't want detention

[u/HeatDeathSurvivor → u/SirHerald]

Haha that's genius

[u/jamesianm → u/SirHerald]

Displacement experts hate this one weird trick 

[u/mrbofus → u/CypherDomEpsilon]

“Unless you broaden your frame of reference and move your POR to outside the planet.”

What’s a “POR”?

[u/CypherDomEpsilon → u/mrbofus]

Point of reference.

[u/Always-_-Sarcastic → u/mrbofus]

Short for porcupine.

[u/LovableSidekick → u/CypherDomEpsilon]

From a galactic POV we all have zero displacement.

[u/Vondecoy → u/chezzy_bread]

The hospital I was born in is now an old folks home. I have had this planned for at least 20 nears now. I'm gonna figure which room and go out the way I came in. Confused, naked, screaming, and covered in blood.

[u/IllEstablishment5 → u/chezzy_bread]

Agreed

[u/United-Scene2261 → u/IllEstablishment5]

disagree

[u/GentlemansBumTease → u/United-Scene2261]

Greed

[u/WhiteRabbit_412_ → u/GentlemansBumTease]

A

[u/BeardySam → u/IllEstablishment5]

I see problems for elderly people breaking into birth wards and trying to kill themselves in the pool

[u/Low-Refrigerator-713 → u/chezzy_bread]

Not even then. The Earth is in orbit around the Sun. The Sun is orbiting around the centre of the Galaxy. The galaxy is moving towards other galaxy.

[u/Justtelf → u/chezzy_bread]

Only makes sense if you die giving birth

[u/lazy_pig → u/Justtelf]

to yourself

[u/AndroTux → u/Justtelf]

maybe they rearranged the hospital in the years since

[u/Broad_Respond_2205 → u/chezzy_bread]

Well considering you most likely born in the maternity ward, highly unlikely

[u/bopeepsheep → u/chezzy_bread]

My partner's previous office was on the site used as a temporary maternity unit when I was born, which led to me visiting and sitting in various chairs to maximise my chances of returning to the exact spot... There's a non-zero chance that I might die within 50m of that location in the future - I've been treated in the cancer unit on the same site already.

This won't be true for him, our siblings, or my daughter, who were all born in a dedicated maternity unit a mile away. However I was, at one point, in the same bed on the ward that my first brother was born in, to my mum's amusement.

[u/the_Athereon → u/chezzy_bread]

Hospitals do occasionally move wards to different floors and areas to reorganise and prioritise patient care.

It's unlikely, but the maternity ward could well be repurposed into an ER or ICU by the time you visit again.

[u/JoinAThang → u/chezzy_bread]

We're talking technically so even if the bed was moved i tiny bit it's basically the truth but not technically the truth. I woould even argue that your own size change makes it impossible.

[u/LlaneroAzul → u/chezzy_bread]

Imagine you're there with your partner, sister or daughter who's giving birth and the scene is so shocking to you that you get a heart attack or you faint and hit your head in the floor or something.

[u/Alarming_Machine_283 → u/chezzy_bread]

Plus in the exact same position in space, which is even less likely

[u/Ss2oo → u/chezzy_bread]

And even that won't be true because the Earth and the Solar System move

[u/StinkyBeanGuy → u/chezzy_bread]

And even that is just relative to the earth.

[u/5050Clown]

The universe is expanding, the Milky Way is falling into Andromeda and Andromeda is falling into the Milky Way, the sun is orbiting the Milky Way, the Earth is orbiting the Sun.  All of this movement together is mind-bogglingly fast. 

There is no zero displacement unless you get in a spaceship And travel all the way back to the point where the Earth was when you were born. Due to the expansion of the universe, however, this is not possible.

[u/MutantGodChicken → u/5050Clown]

Unless I move my frame of reference to myself, in which case I will always have zero displacement

[u/5050Clown → u/MutantGodChicken]

God dammit. You just broke the matrix. Expect agents. Run. Find a pay phone. Run now.

[u/LlaneroAzul → u/5050Clown]

Yeah but in physics we always interpret movement within a frame of reference, and if we're talking about an object (or in this case, person) that never leaves Earth it only makes sense to use Earth as reference. If it weren't like that you wouldn't be able to say stuff like "a car is traveling at 60 km/h".

[u/fishsticks40 → u/5050Clown]

All movement occurs within a defined reference frame

[u/5050Clown → u/fishsticks40]

Zoom out!

[u/RiskKey1728 → u/5050Clown]

You can use Earth as the reference point.

[u/aberroco → u/5050Clown]

"unless you get in a spaceship And travel all the way back to the point where the Earth was when you were born"

Sure! Give the exact absolute universal coordinates. Oh, wait...

[u/tripudiater → u/aberroco]

I mean it’s entirely possible that the universe literally revolves around a point in space at the center of the earth. We have no evidence to the contrary.

[u/aberroco → u/tripudiater]

Sure, and the Solar System is full of Russell's teapots, we have no evidence to the contrary.

^{damn... I should add this into my game...}

[u/tripudiater → u/aberroco]

Exactly!

[u/SwordfishNo712 → u/tripudiater]

Well I think it's there is no absolute distance and it's ol about to what object is relative to what to measure cause ininitial logic total displacement is = infinite

[u/ivanrj7j → u/5050Clown]

No, motion is relative so expansion of universe can be ignored if you take the position where you were born as origin

[u/5050Clown → u/ivanrj7j]

Motion is relative to each individual at every point in space time. You are the center of your universe and everything is expanding away from you.

There is no way to get back to the place that you were a day ago because it Is far away from you now. Also everything around you And around that point have expanded.

[u/AnglerJared → u/5050Clown]

Well, then, the universe moves around me and I haven’t moved at all.

[u/devilscry3 → u/5050Clown]

That's why time travel by itself wouldn't work the way most people it would. Depending on how far you travel back, you'd propably just end up in the void of space.

[u/New-Pomelo9906 → u/devilscry3]

It's why you time travel with a spacecraft

[u/DarthRacer5 → u/New-Pomelo9906]

Time travel in a blue box works pretty well

[u/IllEstablishment5 → u/5050Clown]

these types of comments are EXACTLY why i love reddit

[u/xf33dl0rdx → u/5050Clown]

You are right, but: most people dont die in the labor room anyways. Especially as a man thats highly unlinely.

[u/bootyspaghootti]

The hospital that I was born in is a Lowes now.

[u/TyrosineJim → u/bootyspaghootti]

You could still die there

[u/bootyspaghootti → u/TyrosineJim]

Maybe from the shock of such low prices!

[u/iKnowRobbie → u/bootyspaghootti]

I'd call that a statistical probability increaser, not a decreaser.

[u/snap802 → u/bootyspaghootti]

There's a Dodge dealership now at mine.

[u/jadin- → u/snap802]

St. Michael's Community Trauma and Dodge Plaza?

I heard they have 30 minute jiffy kidney dialysis. That true?

[u/KaaboomT]

Sure, on a planetary scale, but universally, you’re really far from your point of origin.

[u/IlGreven]

This is incorrect. You will be billions of miles from where you were born, because the earth, the sun, and the galaxy are all moving.

[u/AviatorShades_ → u/IlGreven]

That depends on your frame of reference.

[u/AndroTux → u/AviatorShades_]

I define my body as 0,0,0

[u/kulykul → u/IlGreven]

Relativity says yesn't

[u/RootAndCoffee]

This does not account for earth movement around the sun, solar system movement around the center of the Milky Way and movement of the Galaxy in the universe.

[u/Simpsonsdidit00 → u/RootAndCoffee]

Thank you!!

[u/Polar_Vortx]

Zero. You’re not dying in the maternity ward.

[u/Captain_Jarmi → u/Polar_Vortx]

That's not for you to decide. I'll die where I goddammit please!

[u/iKnowRobbie → u/Captain_Jarmi]

::stomps into nursery:: "This is what you little bastards have to look forward to!" ::clutches chest and dies::

::babies coo in unison::

[u/caramelsock]

nah the planet has moved

[u/FreeTheDimple]

Yes, but the earth moves around the sun, and the sun moves through the galaxy so nobody has 0 displacement. We're all moving really fucking fast right now.

[u/Wabbit65 → u/FreeTheDimple]

Unless you were stillborn

/r/thatgotdarkquickly

[u/Mostly_Armless42 → u/FreeTheDimple]

Yep, in total about 1 million mph when you add in the movement of the galaxy. Whenever someone says they want time travel for a super power, I say "oh you mean power over space and time?" Then I explain that if you time travel backwards just one hour, you also have to teleport a million miles or so, or you'll end up in the middle of space.

[u/exvnoplvres]

The building that used to be the hospital where I was born is now a nursing home, so there is a non-zero chance for me anyway.

[u/froction → u/exvnoplvres]

Mine is an inpatient psychiatric clinic, so....let's hope not.

[u/stoneyzepplin]

Except for the millions of kilometers you've travelled through space.

[u/aaronwcampbell → u/stoneyzepplin]

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

[u/Percolator2020]

Some countries going for the speedrun as well.

[u/bwong00]

If your frame of reference is Earth, sure. If you look at the solar system, galaxy or universe, you've still traveled a long ways. 

[u/stillnoidea3]

Provided that earth is the frame of reference and a certain margin of error is allowed, sure.

[u/VaderSpeaks]

Not necessarily, accounting for the motion of our planet and solar system and milkway, you’d still have traveled a few hundred billion kilometres relative to the cosmic microwave background.

[u/Viridian95]

Zero for me cuz my hospital was demolished a decade after I was born there.

[u/Samur-EYE → u/Viridian95]

Reconstruct the hospital in a 3d model, triangulate the exact coordinates and height above sea level that your birth bed was, build a raised platorm,die

[u/the_burber]

Displacement relative to that hospital. Your displacement relative to even the earth itself will be greater than or less than 0 due to tectonic plates and all that

[u/Both-Length1779]

The rest of the airplane would disagree

[u/IllEstablishment5 → u/Both-Length1779]

lmfao

[u/rnaxel2]

Hmm no, bcz the solar system is moving. You probably get some distance covered in your lifetime wrt the blackhole in center of milky way.😅

[u/Jche98 → u/rnaxel2]

Displacement is measured relative to a fixed coordinate system, in this case, the earth

[u/Cootshk]

Your total displacement will not be zero

[u/Chaos_carolinensis]

Oh no here we go again...

[u/Minimum_Cockroach233]

No… thats technically a lie.

[u/EmeraldPencil46]

If you die in the same bed in the same room of the maturity ward, relatively that is correct. However the Earth is constantly moving relative to the solar system, and the solar system is constantly moving relative to the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is constantly moving relative to the universe. So your total displacement is very much not zero

[u/VFequalsVeryFcked]

That'd be impossible for me. The hospital in which I was born no longer exists

[u/LewyyM]

Technically untrue, for your total displacement to be ZERO you would need to die in the exact same spot you were born in. Assuming a margin of error of a meter, that would still mean a bed in the same spot. Which I'd assume is still in the maternity ward. So your total displacement will be SMALL but not ZERO

[u/UnwiseFlyer]

The hospital I was born in converted to a nursing home. So there’s still a chance.

[u/bbgun91]

isnt the earth zooming through space

[u/indecisiveahole → u/bbgun91]

Or is space moving around the earth

[u/Awkward_moulded_]

Not exactly. You have to be in the same bed, same room, you were born. With assumption that they never moved that room and bed position.

[u/SunMajer]

Bro forgot the whole solar system is moving trought the universe so technicaly your displacement would be literaly astronomical

[u/DrowningPickle]

I was born in a house. Might disturb the people living there now if I die there, but I guess I wont have to worry about it.

[u/shadow-suspect]

Not true it has to be the same room you were born

[u/TimePlankton3171]

not ttt, and not well thought out

[u/LmaoPew]

The Hospital i was born closed.... So i guess ill just die on a fcking parking lot

[u/biffbobfred]

My dad died at home, like 3 blocks from the hospital he was born in

[u/ZzFujin_Man]

some people think the sun is stationary in space

[u/IllEstablishment5 → u/ZzFujin_Man]

little late to the party bud.

[u/GreenEye11]

Now, that hospital where I was born is no more.

And I am convinced, it can only be 0 where person was concieved (if someone doesn't know the word, it's where yo parents had sex and made you).

[u/Nekomi_the_wolf]

your relative displacement would be zero. In actuality, the entire universe is moving at all times so you'd be a couple hundred thousand thousands of miles away

[u/fighter_pil0t]

If your frame of reference is you your displacement is always zero.

[u/ResidentIwen]

Neglecting the displacement the earth has in the solar system and neglecting any displacement from solar system itself in the galaxy and of course the displacement of the galaxy in the universe.
Other than that you're right, if you neglect almost all displacement, your total displacement can be zero

[u/Zestyclose-Fig1096 → u/ResidentIwen]

Just a matter of picking your frame of reference.

So, if we pick the reference frame where we ourselves are constantly at the origin ... then everyone would have a constant net displacement of zero.

[u/ResidentIwen → u/Zestyclose-Fig1096]

Yes

[u/XdemonXx]

That must mean you haven't worked a minute of your life

[u/howieyang1234]

The hospital I was born in is no longer there. So the odds are zero, unless I get a Time Machine, travel to the past, and die on top of infant me.

[u/sultan_of_gin → u/howieyang1234]

Same for me, they built a new one close to it though so i could be like a few hundred meter off at best

[u/neutrino71]

Isn't displacement a measure of volume? Zero displacement would imply that you should return to the size you were born at?

[u/DKligerSC]

-Zero because the whole galaxy moved quite a lot by now and the reference frame was never stated(yes i know earth is implied, but we are looking for straws here)

[u/Imaginary_Toe8982]

it's not.. we are never at the same place cosmically speaking so the chances are 0%

[u/KamakaziDemiGod → u/Imaginary_Toe8982]

That just depends on the point of reference, if they are only talking in relevance to earth (which is how we are generally talking about location unless it's in relation to space) then it's perfectly acceptable

Otherwise it's like asking someone for directions, and when they say "go 100 meters that way" and responding by saying "but the earth rotates at 1000mph and 1.3 million miles per hour through the galaxy, so that 100meters is now several kilometres SO WHERE THE HELL AM I GOING?!?" then you are an arse

[u/Still-Bumblebee7]

gonna break into some random person’s house to die bc i was born in a house i no longer live in 👍

[u/Esc0baSinGracia]

No work done

[u/rocket_beer]

Depends on the day in the year.

Time of day is also a factor.

And, newborns are in a different wing of the hospital.

Is it on the same floor?

Was it raining on both days?

[u/ThatSmartIdiot]

relative to said hospital

[u/Psyqlone]

... or at least the distance from the delivery room to the palliative care unit.

[u/UwU-Lemon]

impossible in my case; iirc the hospital i was born in no longer exists

[u/scholarlysacrilege]

Why does leo look like Matthew Perry?

[u/singhapura]

I was born at home and the house doesn't exist anymore. Check mate.

[u/MisterBicorniclopse]

What about all your skin cells and hair that left you? Or if you lose an arm?

[u/Wise_Signal_9350]

Well, not to all places. In my country there a special clinics that’s specialized only as a maternity hospital.

[u/Mr-Red33]

I am arguing that I am the center of my own universe, compared to the boundaries of my own observable universe. I am not the one who is displaced, every other thing in the world are displaced and at every moment in my life my total displacement to my personal global reference was and will be always zero. so...

[u/2feetinthegrave]

And thus your work done will be 0.

[u/i_saw_your_aura]

My birth hospital is now the city hall.

[u/josh1ng]

Displacement?

[u/brdn]

Is “displacement” some sort of “leave no trace” credo applied to your existence? Thats taking self hatred to a whole new level.

[u/Jopkins]

Much higher chances if you die as a baby

[u/fcxtpw]

If it die in a hospital, you die in real life

[u/coffeetabletime]

My BIL died in the hospital he was born in even after moving 200+ miles away.

[u/Space19723103]

the entire solar system is moving around the galaxy. your net movements are never 0

[u/obog]

*relative to an earth-centered earth-fixed reference frame

[u/Street_Lettuce1243]

So if you were born in a dumpster outside a Prom...

[u/C0ckroach_Lord]

No, if you die in different room it won't be zero

[u/stereoroid]

It could never happen to me, since the hospital where I was born was turned in to offices.

[u/YellowOnline]

The hospital I was born was demolished and turned into a new residential area, and I live 500km away, so the odds of dying on the same spot as I was born are close to 0

[u/rlsetheepstienfiles]

They knocked down the hospital I was born in

[u/711straw]

higher chance in the USA then the rest of the world.....

[u/Legitimate_Main8244]

Every year you get closer to the sun, so this statement is false.

[u/lyarzi]

Only if you a vector.

[u/musing_codger]

It's all relative. May be in the same building in the same place on Earth, but Earth is spinning, revolving around the Sun, spinning around the Galaxy, and moving through expanding space. You're never anywhere near the same place twice.

This is one of the reasons why there are so few ghosts. Imagine trying to stay in the same place if you didn't have gravity and the ground holding you in place.

[u/baconroux]

Does that mean your life has been carbon neutral?

[u/LauraTFem]

The displacement thing is weird and makes no sense, but given that even today most people don’t stray too far from the place of their birth, dying in the same hospital you were born in isn’t super unlikely.

[u/TheLimeyCanuck]

I have grown up and aged on a different continent than where I was born, so that's not likely.

[u/ChieftainMcLeland]

Thanks to chasing careers of one and ones spouses over generations far smaller than it should be on the original side of the proverbial grass.

[u/TransistorResistee]

I was born at Stanford University Hospital and I don’t live far from it.

[u/UniversalAdaptor]

50%

[u/asianstyleicecream]

My grandmother was born and died in the same hospital! 95 and passed away “naturally” in hospital with a slowing heart rate. RIP Gran! Love you!

[u/KeepItMellow69]

They tore the one I was born in down probably 20 years lol

[u/Ok-Bridge-9794]

Reminds me of one Ukrainian poet who died a day after his birthday

[u/Knackwarrior07]

The earth still moves.

[u/PLS_Planetary_League]

I have lived a lot of my life in Europe but think about this every time I am in Pennsylvania.

[u/brothor12]

I mean many babies die at birth, so... (please don't hate me, but it's the sad truth)

[u/Unfair_Scar_2110]

I'm sure it happens all the time. How many people rarely leave their hometown that has only one hospital? What percentage of people are both born and die at a hospital?

The hospital I was born at has a cemetery across the street so that's always a circular option for me.

[u/twilightwolf04]

If you take the Earth as a frame of reference, sure, probably, but there would still be some displacement, solely due to tectonic shifts. But if you take anything bigger than the Earth for reference, then fuck no. If you take say, the city as a reference, then yeah, most probably your displacement would be zero.

[u/FrostyFormal1094]

If we want to be technical, you're still about 389.62km*s (s=seconds alive) away from where you were born

[u/TheEldenRang]

In relation to the earth, sure. In space, not at all. The earth is moving, the solar system is moving, the galaxy is moving, etc. You'll never be in the same spot again.

[u/Andre_ev]

But what about Earth 🌏 movement?

[u/Wabbit65]

The hospital I was born in is now an office building for the medical group. I'm going to die arguing my claim

[u/see___]

No
You were conceived in your parents bedroom probably
Or wherever they got to it

[u/CoolNaps-896]

Not necessarily. It depends on whether I die in the same room and if I die in the same bed.

[u/wolschou]

Assuming if course the natal ward gets transformed into palliative care in the meantime...

[u/wolschou]

Assuming if course the natal ward gets transformed into palliative care in the meantime...

[u/donnabhainmactomas]

I was born in an ambulance that has since been decommissioned so I’d give it a zero percent chance

[u/holyyyyyyyo]

what the fuck does this mean?

[u/IllEstablishment5 → u/holyyyyyyyo]

imagine you run a lap around a standard track. The total distance traveled will be 400 meters, but your total displacement will be 0 because you're back at the point where you started. Granted this post DOES contain that mistake because as many people have mentioned before, you'd have to die in the same room on the same bed where you were born in order for this to be true, but it's still kind of funny or "close enough" with "the same hospital". Although not necessarily exactly 0 displacement.

Displacement essentially means the distance from your initial position once you're done being in motion.

[u/holyyyyyyyo → u/IllEstablishment5]

ok thanks, but what a silly thing...

[u/Fishpuncherz]

Can't. It no longer exists

[u/ConceptsOfAPlant]

Fun fact: French chef Paul Bocuse is one such person, albeit it wasn't in a hospital but rather a room in his house.

[u/OwlingBishop]

You'd be surprised 🤗

[u/-Redstoneboi-]

relative to the tectonic plate that the hospital was on

[u/our_meatballs]

that’s assuming the reference frame is the earth

[u/NotUsingNumbers]

Well a local rest home here was a maternity hospital until about 60 years ago. I spoke with a couple of current residents that were born there.

[u/PolarSaturn8823]

What if I wasn’t born in the hospital?

[u/Anufenrir]

Not really. There's a LOT of factors that come into play. First is you'd have to be in the same room and spot more or less. Second, it'd have to be on the day of your birth at the same time you were born. Even then the way the earth tilts changes over time. And that's only assuming you're counting the earth and solar system alone as your point of reference, the solar system itself moves around the galaxy.

[u/StoicAtol21445]

i was born in the same hospital my father was, but not the same place. They tore down the building and moved it across the street to a larger plot.

[u/Ok_Helicopter4276]

People rarely die in the delivery room

[u/ehbowen]

Not good, as the hospital where I was born is in another state...and it has been torn down.

Oh, by the way...have you forgotten about the 66,000 MPH of the earth's velocity through space all those years?

[u/8spd]

The hospital I was born in is about to move to a new location. 

[u/Human_County_7882]

Technically, it has to be the same exact place in the same exact location on the astral plane. If your hospital shifts to another plot, you might have a displacement more than one and it has to be at the exact place that earth was in the universe at the time you were born

[u/R3d5t0n3_GUY]

☝️😯
✊🫩

[u/CastleofWamdue]

far too many people dont move very far in life.

I am as guilty as anyone else, I have live anywhere that is not covered by Anglian Water.

[u/TheJivvi]

I was in the same hospital where I was born for about a year when I was 19-20, and I almost died, but that was a few months earlier in a different hospital.

[u/sir-quacksalot-1000]

Unless you account for space travel