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Banach-Tarski Paradox

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-31 18:23

One of the implications of this paradox is that in an infinitely divisible world, it's possible to cut up a 3 dimensional ball into 5 pieces. Then rearrange them using rigid motion, i.e no strechting/scaling etc. so that you  will get two balls each of whom are equal in volume of the original ball. Pity the real world isn't infinitely divisible.

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-31 18:54

There are infinitely many paradoxes involving infinity.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-01 17:40

Theoretically it is infinitely divisible (mechanics works with real numbers and vector spaces/matrix groups over them, which are dense AND uncountable).

The problem is that there's no infinitely thin knife.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-01 18:31

THA KNIFE IS LIKE A BASEBALL BAT EXCEPT FORCE BYE AREA IS REALLY HIGH.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 11:05

>>3

Not all knives have to be physical.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 11:08

sorry I meant "material"

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 16:55

how would you model this occurance?

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-14 17:57

>>1
 NOT PARADOX

Just wrong, and stupid

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-14 20:01

>>8
lol gtfo you dumb shit.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-15 3:21

Zeno > Ban-Tan

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