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Article #6432Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...)
From: Christopher Michael Cooney
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 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 : no. -- coonec@rpi.edu Comp. Science, Blah Blah Sparc MIPS Blah "Watch me not care" dilbert 19960219
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102cdf,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cdf,public X-Google-Thread: 10f3ae,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f3ae,public X-Google-Thread: 10aec3,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10aec3,public X-Google-Thread: f5d40,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d40,public X-Google-Thread: ffd1b,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gidffd1b,public X-Google-Thread: 10a148,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a148,public From: coonec@rpi.edu (Christopher Michael Cooney) Subject: Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...) Date: 1997/03/29 Message-ID: <5hhq2q$fr1@usenet.rpi.edu> X-Deja-AN: 230690914 References: <858944975.21700@dejanews.com> <E7pGE8.21v@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> <hatunenE7pK18.n1L@netcom.com> <5he5lg$hs8@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <5heubn$r3v@gap.cco.caltech.edu> Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle,alt.conspiracy,alt.folklore.science,hsv.general,alt.folklore.urban,rec.models.rockets Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,alt.conspiracy,alt.folklore.science,hsv.general,alt.folklore.urban,rec.models.rockets