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Article #6424Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...)
From: John Gentile
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:00
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: : Garrett Choi (gchoi@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
: :
: : William Poundstone talks about that Thompson Lamp thing where
: : basically you imagine you've got this lamp which can switch on and off
: : infinitely fast. I walk out of the room and you start. You turn it
: : on for 1/2 a minute, off for 1/4, on for 1/8, etc. After two minutes,
: : I come back in. Is the light on or off?
: :
: :
: : Garrett
: : gchoi@cco.caltech.edu
: :
the light is neither on nor off...it's like the dead cat thing, where
the cat is neither alive nor dead. (dunno if you've heard of that one,
but oh, well ;-)).
if I may point out that infinity is nonexistant for the simple reason
that it disproves itself -- that is... {
infinity is the highest number (usually), and there is no
highest number, so infinity does not exist.
}
since infinity disproves itself, it cannot be reached. the entire
theory is void. ;-)
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