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You know what? I've been around for a while.

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I've traveled the world, met some interesting people, done some crazy things.

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So you might just think there's not much that could take me by surprise.

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You'd be wrong.

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The world is full of stories and science and things that amaze and confound me every single day.

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Incredible mysteries that keep me awake at night.

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Some I can answer. Others justify logic.

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Like the woman shot at point blank range with an AK-47 assault rifle.

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A high caliber bullet aimed directly at her heart.

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Yet she survives.

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How?

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Do things happen for a reason?

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Will the things we do today affect our future?

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A child close to death is saved by a woman he doesn't know.

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Years later, the same woman suffers her own mere fatal accident and is saved by the same child.

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Random coincidence? Or are there mysterious forces of the universe at work?

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And scientists set out to prove an incredible theory.

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Okay, you're east.

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Do cows all face in the same direction?

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Yep.

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It's a weird world.

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And I love it.

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The End

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When it comes to crime stories, I used to think I'd heard everything.

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After all, I used to be a no-nonsense LA cop, not to mention the greatest lawyer in history.

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Well, at least I was pretending to be those things.

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This next weird tale centers on the most bizarre real-life crime scene I have ever come across.

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An incident I've named, the case of the bulletproof breasts.

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Not switching channels now, are you?

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The AK-47 assault rifle, otherwise known as the Kalishnikov,

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designed in Russia during World War II.

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It's been used by everyone, from the Soviet Union, China, the Vietcong, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

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The AK fires large caliber bullets at a rate of 2,300 feet per second.

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Twice the speed of sound, it has a killing range of over 1,000 feet.

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For six decades, it's been one of the world's most popular and effective combat weapons.

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The AK-47 is designed to kill, which makes the next story all the more unbelievable.

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A woman shot in the chest at point-blank range, defying all logic, she survives.

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Firearm experts test a bizarre hypothesis.

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Could the victim have been saved by her breast implants?

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Weird or what?

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July 1st, 2009, C.M.I. Valley, California.

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Dental clinic receptionist Lydia Karanza is starting her day.

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At about 9.30 in the morning, I was checking in a patient.

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Suddenly, Lydia hears a loud bang from just outside the main office door.

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I look to my left, down the hallway, there comes this person with a rifle on one side.

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And he's coming really fast. So the other coworkers that are in the reception area,

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I tell them, let's go hide in the fax room.

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A gunman has entered the building, wasting no time Lydia quickly hides her coworkers in a back room and dials 911.

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I thought, you know, this, we'll go hide in the back and maybe he'll just go out through the front door,

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you know, this person that's trying to rob the place.

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But the gunman is no thief.

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He's Jaime Paredes, the estranged husband of Lydia's coworker, Mariela.

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Paredes is fueled by rage and armed with an AK-47 assault rifle.

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Once I heard him, Yala turned him. I knew it was him and what he was going to do.

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With clear purpose and murderous intent, Paredes makes his way to where his wife Lydia and the office staff hide in fear for their lives.

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And I saw the rifle, the office manager, she says, Jaime, you don't have to do this.

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And he says, I love you, babe. I told you I was going to do this and then he shoots her.

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Mariela is killed instantly. Paredes then sets his sight on Lydia.

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His first shot hits her arm. She hits the floor.

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I was just thinking of my kids, my family, my granddaughter. She was just a week old.

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And I just had talked to my daughter 10 minutes before this all happened.

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And I kept wondering, oh, I hope she, you know, I wonder if she knows what's going on.

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At point blank range, Paredes aims the AK-47 directly at Lydia's heart and pulls the trigger.

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After a standoff, police apprehend Paredes outside the dental premises.

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Inside, they discover the carnage he has caused. They also find something seemingly miraculous.

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Lydia is still alive and she will go on to make a remarkable recovery. How?

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Lydia's own theory is incredible.

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My breast implant is what helped, what saved my life.

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It seems incomprehensible, but Lydia isn't the only person who believes that her breast implants

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somehow stopped a bullet traveling at 1600 miles per hour from doing its job.

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Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ashkan Gavami examined Lydia after the shooting.

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I think it's very plausible that the implant played a vital role in saving her life in this situation.

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But why and how? Could a clue to the mystery lie in the type of implants Lydia had in her chest?

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They were made of saline.

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That a saving implant is under a high pressure system. It's not like silicone, it's not malleable or deformable.

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It's like an airbag. An airbag absorbs a lot of the energy and avoids the windshield and other things coming at you

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because it acts as a barrier. This act is a barrier as well, this time in a penetrating injury.

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It takes the burden of absorbing the physical energy. An airbag does the same thing.

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It absorbs the physical energy because it itself is a high pressure system.

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It needs to release that energy when it gets injured. When an implant explodes, its energy is distributed widely.

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So the bullet fragments go with that energy and so they don't have a chance to give their energy and velocity deeper.

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It seems plausible but can the theory that a sac filled with sterile salt solution stop the bullet be proven?

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Lydia Karanza is shot on the chest at point blank range by an AK-47 semi-automatic weapon and only suffers minor injury.

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Doctors later find bullet fragments in her arm and upper body just millimeters from the heart and other vital organs.

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Thankfully in this instance, the world's most popular assault rifle failed to do its job.

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But how? Was this just incredible good luck? No. This is... weird. What?

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Using a test gun that accurately replicates the ballistic 7 AK-47, researchers at a research lab in Ottawa, Canada,

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are going to pit implants against the same caliber bullet with which Lydia was shot.

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The gelatin block will simulate the damage a person's body would endure if they got in the way of one of these bullets.

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And firing.

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Traveling at nearly 2,300 feet per second, the large caliber bullet goes right through the implant like it wasn't even there.

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While some of the hallmarks of a lethal shot or what we look for are the depth of penetration

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and as we can see the bullet clearly penetrated the full length of the block.

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So here we are, first frame with the bullet, second frame is just entering the implant, third frame has gone through and has entered the gelatin block.

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What we can start to see here is an opening within the gelatin block as we move forward

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and that would be the wound tract inside.

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We also want to look at how soon did the bullet upset and we can see that the neck length here is relatively short

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so the bullet upset early, meaning it began to tumble and change orientation.

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You can see that the permanent wound channel in here is quite large and then it gets smaller the further on we go.

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The implant has had one unexpected effect but it's not the one that could help save a life.

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The implant if it did anything just caused the bullet to destabilize sooner than it would otherwise and actually create a bigger wound channel sooner.

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The test reveals that head on the implant actually made the bullet more deadly

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but could recreating the actual angle at which Lydia was shot make a difference?

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If it had just grazed her breast then we wouldn't have seen deep fragments, we would have seen injury to her left breast as well

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or her left arm or something else or some of the fragments hitting the furniture

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but the fragments all ended up in her body and they ended up deep at an angle.

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So I think she was laying on the ground.

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The gunman was standing and shot her at an angle and she was covering herself so her left breast was up a little bit

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and the bullet came in at an angle like this, went through here and then just stopped right here.

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For the next experiment the researchers are going to recreate the angle at which Lydia was shot.

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Will this have an effect on the bullet's killing power?

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Loaded and good to go.

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Firing.

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Alright, we see the path of the bullet entered here, went through the enter with the implant, exited here.

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It would appear that traveling through more of the implant has affected the bullet.

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I think the bullet exited the implant sideways, I think going through more material destabilized it.

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There's a larger exit wound and certainly blew this all apart like it would if it was going through sideways

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and the witness mark on here also indicates that it's sideways.

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The trajectory stayed the same but the attitude of the bullet changed.

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Don't rely on a breast implant to stop a bullet.

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It's possible the breast implant could have slightly changed the behavior of the bullet as it entered Lydia's body.

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But judging by today's experiments, not enough to save her from certain death.

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So, has the implant theory been ruled out?

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Maybe not.

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Cosmetic surgeon Dr. Ashkan Kovami believes that bizarrely, Lydia's breast implants may have helped save her life.

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To prove it, he's examining the x-rays taken of Lydia's chest just hours after the incident.

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Here you can see the outline of the heart.

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You can see all the multiple bullet fragments immediately adjacent to the heart,

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which means essentially millimeters from entering deeper tissue and to go into the heart.

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So we're looking at an overlay of those fragments on top of the outer surface before the rib cage.

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Plus, the implants are placed under the muscle.

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You have an extra layer there, a thick muscle on top.

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Then you have the implant underneath.

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Then you have the rib cage and the deep organs under that.

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So there were multiple layers for that bullet fragment to go across before it had to reach her lungs and heart.

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And basically, if lucky for her, never was able to reach it.

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Bullets that fragment on impact can be more lethal than those that remain intact.

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The shrapnel causes multiple pathways of damage through the body,

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severing nerve tissue and blood vessels, endangering the major organs.

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But according to Dr. Kivami, the bullet that hit Lydia while fragmenting

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may have had its velocity reduced by her implant.

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The fact that she had essentially a bag full of high pressure filled salt water in it,

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it acted to be more resistant to a force than her own little amount of breast tissue that she had had she not had the implant.

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And that energy of the fragments, when it hit her breast, her skin, then her fatty tissue,

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then her glandular tissue, then the high pressure implant, those fragments,

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the energy of them was distributed amongst that area before it had a chance to go deeper

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and be distributed among vital organs like the heart and lungs.

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So it essentially slowed down and took the burden of a lot of the physical energy, those fragments,

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before they had a chance to go deeper.

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And a lot of this may have to do with the angle the bullet hits,

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which we don't exactly know. Depending on the angle the bullet hits and where she was sitting,

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perhaps her arm was a second layer.

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We don't know all those details, but I do know where the bullet fragments ended up

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and we do know that her saline implant was ruptured.

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So we know that that intervened at some level in her avoiding further injury.

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But as our lab tests have shown, a regular 7.62x39mm bullet can't be stopped by a breast implant.

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These bullets stayed intact.

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So why did the bullet that hit Lydia fragment?

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Firearms expert Patricia Phan thinks the answer might lie.

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In the type of bullets Gunman Jaime Paredes used during his rampage.

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Because of the way the bullet is manufactured, it has a tendency to fragment when it hits an object,

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whether it be a car door or a person, that particular bullet fragments.

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There's a possibility that it fragments when it hits a hard object,

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and then the ricochet, as you would call it, could go in and penetrate under the skin.

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A standard 7.62x39mm cartridge has a steel core encased by lead and surrounded by copper.

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This is known as a full metal jacket used mostly by the military.

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It has superior penetrating capacity.

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One shot can slice through a car door, armor, and several people without being destabilized.

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But some 7.62x39mm bullets, like those used by many U.S. hunters, are designed with the lead exposed at the tip.

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These are sometimes called soft points, and are designed to lessen penetration,

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but increase fragmentation or tumbling of the bullet upon impact, maximizing injury.

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When you shoot these bullets into water, there's that possibility they can fragment,

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and these breast implants were basically a solution or water.

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From what I understand, it went directly into the side of her breast.

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I would say then it probably helped save her life.

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So the theory goes that when the round hit Lydia's chest, the saline implant exploded,

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and the water pressure inside intercepted, redirected, and effectively destroyed the bullet.

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It seems as though Lydia's incredible survival story could be down to a combination of factors.

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Her implants, the use of a bullet prone to fragmentation, but mostly pure luck.

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I now know that your life can be taken at any moment for any reason.

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You may not have nothing to do with other people's problems, but your life can still be taken just like that.

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And I'm thankful to God every day for giving me another opportunity to be here with my family,

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because that is what I was praying for when I was there on the floor.

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Thank God for the implants, because I know that damages would have been just worse, or I just would not be alive.

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We've all heard of bulletproof vests, but bulletproof breasts? Is that weird or what?

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I'm not sure.

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Unbelievable! No, really, I can't believe it.

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You know how you get that feeling sometimes that you should call someone,

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well, out of the blue this week, I've been thinking about my old friend Ted,

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but I didn't know how to get in touch with him.

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Today, I go golfing. It was terrible, I couldn't hit a straight drive to save my life.

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And one of my balls veers off and hits a guy the foursome ahead of us.

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I rush over to apologize and knew it should be Ted.

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What a crazy coincidence.

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That got me thinking.

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Small coincidences surprise us, the big ones amaze us, but are coincidences just that?

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Random occurrences that just happen to coincide?

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Or is there something more going on here?

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Could there be a little understood force that draws these events together? Coincidences?

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Are they weird or what?

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In 1999, Lorraine Steven was at a rookie league baseball game

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near Buffalo, New York with her sons Robbie and Kevin.

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It was a day that would change their lives forever.

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We were at Matheson McCarthy baseball diamond watching our son Robbie play baseball.

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My son Kevin was there helping out that night.

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I was 11 years old and I was too old to be on the team, so I figured I'd help out be the bat boy.

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Kevin was picking up bats and one of the young players was swinging a bat to practice warming up

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and on the backswing he caught Kevin across his chest.

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I didn't know what it was, it was just kind of a hard thud.

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And I turned around, I couldn't really see, everything was blurry and I said help, I've been hit.

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And Kevin took a few steps and just went face first, collapsed on the field.

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Unknown to those around him, Kevin's heart had taken the full force of the bat and it stopped beating.

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I remember them rolling him over and just seeing his eyes like just wide open, fixed and dilated,

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like just no response. It was horrifying, absolutely horrifying.

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Luckily Penny Brown, the mother of another boy and who was supposed to be at work, was watching from the stands.

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He's not breathing, call an ambulance.

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Penny is a nurse, so upon witnessing what happened to Kevin, she immediately knew what needed to be done to save him.

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She started to do CPR on him, that didn't work, so she hit him twice in the chest, really hard, and restarted Kevin's heart.

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Everything just slowly started to come back in, I started seeing light again and then my eyes opened up and I had a really, really bad headache.

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Penny's fast thinking had saved Kevin's life. Remarkably, this wouldn't be the last time they would meet in an extreme emergency.

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January 2006, seven years after Kevin's near-death experience, Lorraine Steven is about to have lunch at the diner where her son Kevin is working in upstate New York.

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I had a half day off and my son Robbie was home with his girlfriend too, so I said, let's go to lunch at the Hillview diner and give Kevin a hard time because he has to work today.

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It was exam week for school and in the middle of the week I found out that the exam wasn't going to happen, so I called my manager and said,

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I can work Friday if you want me to work and she said, sure, why don't you come in?

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As Lorraine began her meal, she noticed another customer was starting to choke.

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So as soon as I saw her put her hands to her neck, I knew she was choking. Her face was red and she just eaked up.

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These words helped me. It was just, it was very scary.

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All of a sudden my manager flings open the door and says, get out here, get out here, and I thought I had done something wrong.

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And then I realized, oh my god, this lady's choking. I ran over there and started performing the hymn with a new word.

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He had to do tooth rust and the food was released and she was breathing again.

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Kevin's quick thinking and anti-choking maneuver saved the woman's life, but there was something else, something strange Lorraine began to notice.

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It was at that point that I put it all together.

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Incredibly, the woman Kevin had saved was the same woman who had saved him seven years before.

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Then my mom said, Kevin, do you realize who this is? Penny Brown saved your life a few years ago and now you've just saved hers.

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And I was absolutely in shock. I couldn't believe it.

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In an extraordinary twist, two random events, seven years apart, have thrown the same two people together in a life and death struggle.

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Is this more than an incredible coincidence?

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Well, you gotta wonder why Penny was at the baseball dining that night. She wasn't supposed to be.

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And you gotta wonder why he was my son at work that afternoon when he wasn't supposed to be.

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Wow. Not just in one person saved the life of another person who had saved his, but neither was supposed to be where they ended up that day.

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It also took each two attempts to save the life of the other. Not just one coincidence, but three rolled into one.

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So what's going on here? Could it be just random or could it be something else?

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Drawing these seemingly unrelated people together at specific times.

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Dr. Jeffrey Rosenthal is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto.

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It doesn't believe that these amazing coincidences are really that remarkable.

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Of course, lots of coincidences can be interesting and fun and amusing and they're fun to retell and so on,

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but I think some people will think that they go a step further and they must have some sort of a cosmic significance

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or there must be some hidden force which is forcing these magical things to happen.

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And I don't look at it that way. I would say, well, let's think about the numbers.

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And when you do, you realize that even really surprising sounding things, it's not that unlikely that at some point something like that will happen to someone.

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So to me, I don't think there's any secret cosmic force involved. I think these things are just gonna happen by chance every now and then.

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Look at this. Royal Flush. The odds of getting a royal flush are 1 in 2,598,960 possible hands.

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That's what makes it appear so special. So what are the odds of experiencing an incredible coincidence?

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To demonstrate how mathematics can demystify seemingly improbable events, Rosenthal performs a simple experiment.

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Hi everyone, we're doing an experiment about randomness and probability.

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Oh, hi, excuse me, would you like to help us with the science experiment that we're doing?

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Okay, all you have to do is you have to write your birthday here and we're gonna see if we get two people with the same birthday. Can you do that?

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Good luck to help us by telling us their birthdays.

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Yeah, just take this over there and we're gonna see if we get a match.

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Randomly choosing 40 people from the campus of the University of Toronto, Rosenthal's theory is that at least two people from this group will share the same birthday.

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Well, you'd think at first, it's 365 days in a year, so it's pretty unlikely out of 40 people that some pair will have the same birthday.

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But actually there's about an 89% chance that some pair will have the same birthday.

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And the reason is because there's 780 different pairs of people that you can make out of a group of 40 people.

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And 780 is actually a lot more than 365.

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And that's why with just 40 people, there's actually an 89% chance, it's a very high chance that there will be some pair of people who have the same birthday.

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This time, Rosenthal's theory is right.

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Two of these random people were born on the same day.

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But does this theory apply to the remarkable story of Penny and Kevin?

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So if you just take a specific pair of people, what's the chance that A saves B's life and then B saves A's life?

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It's about one chance in 40 billion billion.

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It's incredibly unlikely.

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But then once you factor in the fact that there are so many different pairs of people out there who are trained in CPI,

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and the fact that people tend to stay within their own local region,

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and you put that all together and you work it out as best as I can,

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then you end up saying there's something like a one-third chance that at some point during my lifetime,

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there'll be some pair of people living in some local area who will save each other's lives.

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It seems so cold of heartless.

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Others believe in a much more mysterious theory.

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Dr. Gary Schwartz is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona.

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He believes random events are not random at all, but caused by something called synchronicity.

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The term coincidence implies that things happen by chance.

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we think coincidence means chance.

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that something else is going on.

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We're Penny and Kevin destined to meet.

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Dr. Schwartz believes synchronicity is a powerful, invisible organizing force that orchestrates our lives.

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A visual way to express how something invisible can organize things that otherwise be random

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comes from physics, so we can take, for example, iron filings and just put them on a piece of paper.

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And if you just drop them, they'll just spread out haphazardly.

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There's no specific sequence involved if you're just dropping them.

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But if there's a magnet underneath the paper, you will begin to see a structure emerge.

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And that structure reflects the underlying fields that are interconnecting the events.

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That's a remarkable theory.

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Were Kevin and Penny drawn together by an underlying force they weren't aware of?

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Synchronicity applies to this story because there were a set of three improbable events,

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all of which occurred together, where the hole is greater than some of its parts.

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So it was not just that they saved each other, which itself is extraordinarily improbable.

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In each case, they did not expect to be there.

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So it was a deviation from their normal routine that allowed each one to be present when the other needed them.

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So it's the configuration of the multiple conditional probabilities that make it such a unique story.

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But one question remains.

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If synchronicity is an invisible force, where is it coming from?

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At the present time, there's no accepted scientific explanation for the mechanism of synchronicity.

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But there are people who believe that you have to posit the existence of some sort of superintelligence or cosmic term to explain this.

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Is synchronicity really the best explanation for an amazing coincidence?

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Or is there a better way to look at this?

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Physicist Dr. Fred Allen Wolfe is an author and physics lecturer.

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He thinks there may be an explanation that's less mystical and grounded in science.

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In physics, we have two forms of connections that can take place.

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Connections which take place in a logical fashion, in which it's clear there's a cause and effect.

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And connections which can take, and those usually take place over time,

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something in the beginning, something in the end, at 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock.

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Perfectly logical. Take a ball, drop it a few milliseconds after I drop the ball, it hits the ground, cause effect.

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That's one kind of a thing we can talk about. We know what the law is, we can explain it.

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Another kind of connection is something which is like synchronicity.

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Things can become what is called quantum entangled.

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According to quantum mechanics, it is possible for two similar particles to become linked in such a way

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that anything that happens to one of them is instantly communicated to the other, regardless of distance.

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This is called quantum entanglement.

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Theoretically, any two things that have ever interacted will become entangled and connected forevermore.

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In the case of Kevin and Penny, it's possible to think of this as the quantum entanglement because the two had interacted,

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and then separated, remaining quantum entangled until they met in the future,

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in which something else set in motion, one of the possibilities of the entanglement.

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Did Penny and Kevin's lives entangle in a remarkable feat of physics?

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Or were they controlled by superintelligence beyond our comprehension?

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Or was it simply a matter of bizarre coincidence?

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Weird. Or what?

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One thing I've learned over the years is if you scratch the surface of the seemingly mundane,

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more often than not, you'll find something straight up weird.

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Take cows. What do we know about cows? Well, we know they give us milk and leather goods.

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Scientists suggest that their flatulence is a major contributor to global warming.

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We also know that if grilled well, cows taste delicious.

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But what you might not know about our bovine buddies is that they may possess an incredible power,

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a power that may hold the key to the mysterious forces of our planet.

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This bizarre story begins in 2008 when zoologist Heineck Berna was analyzing satellite imagery of the Earth's pastures.

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We looked at several thousand pastures and several tens of thousands of animals.

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What he found is remarkable.

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All over the world, in Europe, Africa, North America,

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most of the planet's 1.3 billion cows were facing in the same direction, either north or south.

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Heineck has a theory why. He believes that cows may have the ability to perceive the Earth's magnetic fields.

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Now, for the first time, researchers are going to try to prove if this power exists.

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Zoologist Heineck Berna thinks he has discovered the answer to this mystery.

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He believes that cows have a power called magnetoception.

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Magnetoception means that the being can already see the magnetic field.

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Our planet is the planet of the Earth.

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He believes that cows have a power called magnetoception.

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Magnetoception means that the being can already see the magnetic field.

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Our planet is essentially a giant bar magnet.

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Inside, a hot liquid iron core sloshes around because of the Earth's rotation.

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It's theorized that this motion creates the Earth's magnetic fields.

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Magnetoception is the ability to perceive these magnetic fields like a compass.

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But hold on. Can a cow really do this?

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Well, as it turns out, there are other animals that may have this power too.

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It's theorized that bees, homing pigeons, and some other smaller organisms, have magnetoception.

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But until now, it has never been observed in a large mammal like a cow.

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So why do we care?

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Well, cows share many of the same genes as human beings.

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So if cows have this incredible internal GPS system locked away in their brains, so might we.

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To test his theory, Heineck is traveling to the heart of cattle country in Texas,

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where, with the help of some local cattle experts, he hopes to prove that cows have magnetoception.

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Jason Clear, beef cattle specialist of Texas A&M University System.

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If they did have some kind of receptors, what I think it is strange, well, probably not.

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Because if you think of the way our environment is, how things have changed, and the species and the animals that we have,

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there are a lot of interesting things that go on there where animals have adapted to the environments and those kind of things,

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and they've done it for one reason or another. I'm not sure that the data is there to prove or disprove it.

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Jason Sawyer of Texas AgriLife Research.

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I've been around cattle most of my life, and it was just sort of a natural fit for me to go into research.

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Kyle Demborski is a Texas A&M physics student.

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He's been commissioned to build a giant electromagnet to test Heineck's theory.

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This is definitely in the area of weird science.

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The electromagnet contains two magnetic coils, which are wrapped around this wooden frame.

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Well, we have two coils. One's lined up north-south, the other is east-west.

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And based on the direction of the current that we put through the coils, it'll generate a magnetic field,

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and it's just like turning the Earth's magnetic field.

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By sending electricity through these coils, they will create magnetic fields in several very specific directions.

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If the cow turns and aligns with it like a compass needle, then we have potential evidence of magnetoception.

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The magnet will generate a field twice as strong as the Earth's magnetic field.

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If Heineck's theory is correct, the cow will align with the man-made magnetic poles.

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The experiment begins as Kyle moves the machine's magnetic north and due east.

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Two more leads.

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But the cow seems unaffected.

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The animal just seemed to continue to do what he was doing.

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He kind of continued to sniff around. He seemed to get a little bored, saw the grass on the other side.

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So maybe there are other external factors to explain why many cows seem to face north or south.

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Have you ever had sun in your eyes?

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Or wind in your face?

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Maybe something as simple as weather could explain the mystery.

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You know, I think that cattle in general are probably more complex than most people give them credit for,

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that's because most people's experience with cattle is looking at them through a windshield while they're driving down a highway somewhere.

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For me, I spend most of my day thinking about cattle and because of that, maybe I think about them a little harder than most people do.

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And so I tend to think that they are probably more complex in both their behaviors and their physiology.

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Perhaps external factors are a clue to solving this mystery.

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Could it be that the cow's preference to face north or south is related to something simpler, like weather?

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one would be, you know, the wind.

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We get a really cold, northern that blows in, cattle will turn their ears to it and try to reduce the amount of wind that's hitting them.

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They'll also group together as well to try to create some more warmth into it as well.

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So if a prevailing cold wind is coming from the north, the cows will turn away and face south.

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And since cows tend to huddle together to minimize heat loss and exposure to the elements,

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it would appear that the cows were all lined up in the same direction.

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The other thing too is if we get a really cold day, the sun pops up,

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they're going to try to position themselves to get more of the sun on the side of their body, more surface area.

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Could the fact that the sun rises in the east sets in the west explain why cattle all face north or south?

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Heineck believes that they will do it even on an overcast, windless day, like today.

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Experiment number two.

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Coil one's at full power.

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Heineck's second attempt is no better than the first.

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Cow number two doesn't react to any change in the magnetic field.

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It looks like these bulls are possibly moving to the feeder at the back of the pin,

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and this one is more or less feeling left out.

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Experiment number two is a failure.

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It seems that cows prefer to be in herds.

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Could this be the reason why they're aligning themselves north or south?

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These cattlemen believe this herding behavior might be contributing to their alignment to the magnetic poles.

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Cows have always been herd animals.

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Ten thousand years ago, before Neolithic humans began corraling them for their meat and milk,

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these beasts would wander great distances searching for food and water.

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And it wasn't just because these guys loved hanging out.

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It was because their large numbers helped ward off predators.

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Herd animals in general and cattle in particular exhibit a fairly intricate social structure within the group.

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And a lot of times it's easy to think of this as sort of high school kids.

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So within the herd there will be smaller subgroups.

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There's usually leaders and followers, and these smaller subgroups form sort of little clings.

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And each of those clings usually has a leader, and then there might be one overall dominant animal in the group.

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If the lead cow is pointed in a certain direction and traveling in that direction,

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you'd say that at least the majority of the rest of the herd is also probably going to be oriented more or less in that direction.

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So if the leader is facing north, so would everyone else.

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But Heineck thinks that it is likely that herd animals like cows use magnetic deception to help them navigate as a group over large distances.

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The only explanation is the magnetic field.

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After two failures, the zoologist has one last chance to prove his theory.

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Let's shift the magnetic field for 90 degrees to the east, so we shall see what happens.

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Okay, you're east!

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It's a first. The cow actually turned east.

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Let us confuse the animal a bit more. Let us shift the magnetic field in the south.

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It appears that the cow's reacting.

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So actually now the cow aligned again with the predicted direction.

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They're going to do it one more time to be sure.

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All right, you're west!

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Does this mean the experiment was a success?

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I have seen some evidence that these animals reacted on changed magnetic field conditions.

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But to find out if cows really do have magnetic deception, more experiments will need to be performed.

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If it's true, we may be one step closer to unraveling the mysteries of our planet.

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Is that weird or what?

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So there we have it. A triple helping of witness.

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A woman survives being shot in the chest by an AK-47 assault rifle at point-blank range.

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Did her breast implants somehow save her life?

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A child is saved from certain death by a stranger.

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Years later, the same woman is also in a potentially fatal accident and is saved by that very safe child.

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The ZAR coincidence or did mysterious forces bring them together?

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Around the world, cows are behaving mysteriously.

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They prefer to stand facing the Earth's magnetic poles.

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Are they shielding themselves from the elements?

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Is this simply a herd instinct?

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Or do our bovine buddies have inbuilt GPS?

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You decide.

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Join me next time for more stories that will undoubtedly be weird or what.

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