A child falls from the 15th floor and miraculously survives.. Scientists explain the reason.

In a rare and astonishing incident that raised many questions and amazement, a two-year-old child miraculously survived a fall from the fifteenth-floor balcony of his apartment in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, last week. According to local authorities, the child suffered multiple injuries after the fall, including a leg fracture and some internal injuries, described as non-life-threatening. He was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment, with expectations of surviving the horrific incident. Falling from such a height is usually fatal, prompting physicists to try to explain his survival. Professor Annette Hosoi, a physics and mechanical engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), explained that the child's light weight significantly reduced the force upon impact with the ground, following the physics rule that "force equals mass times acceleration." Hosoi also pointed out that the child's landing location played a crucial role, as he fell onto a dense shrubbery that helped absorb a large portion of the fall's energy, thus reducing the severity of the injuries. She also discussed the concept of terminal velocity, the maximum speed a body can reach during free fall from a great height. The distance the child fell, although high, was not sufficient to reach this terminal velocity, estimated at around 60 miles per hour for an adult. The child's speed upon impact with the shrubbery was only about 40 miles per hour, making his situation less dangerous than that of an adult in a similar scenario. These details led many to describe the incident as a "scientific miracle," combining good fortune with logical physics explanations, in an event that is rarely seen and impresses both doctors and scientists at the same time.