Pascal's Wager

"God does not play dice," said Albert Einstein, but he was wrong. The universe is a probability equation, and the boiling clouds of time are best described by chaos theory, rooted in chance. The laws of probability were first set down by Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century mathematician, physicist, and mystic, who discovered that "choosing" is the human condition.A child prodigy, Pascal was to the mathematical sciences what Mozart was to music. Besides establishing the laws of probability, Pascal also invented the mechanical calculator, pioneered mathematical theroms and fine-tuned the…