In fact, the words “just shy” and “nearly” don’t do the physics justice. The chance of a macroscopic body deviating from Newton’s predictions is so fantastically tiny that if you’d been keeping tabs on the cosmos for the last few billion years, the odds are overwhelming that you’d have never seen it happen.
Interesting to see the use of probability switch here suddenly and without particular reason. Universes with specific constants coming into existence? No prob, given enough time. A baseball changing its course due to its wave form? Conveniently impossible.
