No it's not. We have a logically rigorous theory of the calculus used in the example It's infinite. But let me ask you this. Are you familiar with the...
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It's much simpler than people imagine. It comes up from time to time on this forum. The proof outline on Wiki is very good. https://en.wikipedia.org/w...
Suppose the cuts are horizontal, parallel to the surface on which the block rests. Then we can think of all the infinitely many cuts as already there....
Try Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Horn#Mathematical_definition I can't speak for Numberphile, which I generally don't watch because ...
Absolutely correct. Also absolutely irrelevant, since nothing in this problem involves dividing one by infinity. I'm afraid this looks like yet anothe...
It was politicians, not corporations that caused the nursing home deaths. There's a major scandal about Cuomo right now. He's the governor of NY state...
Just a quibble. The speed of light is finite. That's the entire point. It's infinite in Newtonian physics. In special relativity the speed of light is...
Other way 'round. ALL we have is the thoughts of those objects. Who says there need to be objects at all? Maybe it's the objects that are emergent pro...
In the example I gave, the speed is unbounded over "any amount of time" for any interval containing zero as the intervals get small. I see your point ...
I already explained that this is false. Did you read my post? Would you be good enough to do so now? You could move a billionth of an inch in zero tim...
Bullpucky. There is no "closure at the bottom of the horn." You just make stuff up and claim mathematicians said it when they didn't. That's called a ...
Not a good argument. You need not travel an infinite distance to reach infinite speed. Consider any jump discontinuity. For example suppose a particle...
Yes. It's a finite volume with infinite surface area. It's a veridical paradox: "A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd, but is dem...
Because if the thickness is constant its volume must be infinite. Think of the infinitely long real line and a rectangle above it with height 1/10. Wi...
If you run the known motion of the matter in the universe backward, you get the big bang. That was the initial oomph. And what caused the big bang, an...
Correct, but the paint can't be uniform since it must be spread over an infinite surface area. The thickness of the paint has to decrease as some conv...
Poor Newton. What? I don't think that's right. After all, Newton well knew that as the earth pulls on the moon, the moon pulls on the earth. "To every...
The Turing test is routinely "beaten" by plain old chatbots. The problem isn't that the chatbots are intelligent, but that humans are easily fooled. I...
No that's not true. Divide the infinite surface area into sections 1 unit long, as for example the positive real number line is partitioned by the int...
1177 BC -- The year civilization collapsed. Saw this on Youtube a while back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1177_B.C.:_The_Year_Civilization_Collapsed...
Not following this thread though avidly following the GME/RH fiasco. Ran across this terrific article about RH's business practices, in particular the...
A misquote and out of context as well, unless you are referring to something else. If so please provide a reference so that I can learn something. I a...
An infinitesimal is an element of an ordered field that is greater than zero, but less than 1/n for every natural number n. If your original remarks w...
If I gave that impression I failed in my post utterly. And I see I did. The epsilon-delta formulation of limits is one of the crowning intellectual ac...
Correct. The modern epsilon-delta formalism finesses infinitesimals. It makes infinitesimals go away. We replace the phrase "infinitely small" with "a...
And consciousness is no more than an epiphenomenon, or doesn't exist, or is merely an emergent property, or some other such philosophical objection to...
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I'd take the other side of both of those propositions. First, calculus has been artithmetized. That is, we can formalize calculus using only the arith...
Just another myth. There were big hedge funds on both sides of the trade. https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-hedge-fund-made-700-million-on-gamestop-11...
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit moderators, Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tear...
Buzzwordy bullshit (*) taken for profundity, as any such philosophical chatbot must necessarily be.. (*) I use the word in the sense of Harry Frankfur...
Rockstar physicist and engaging Youtuber Sean Carroll is big on Many Worlds. But the fact that people argue about the right interpretation of QM, is n...
No, computers aren't anything like that. They're engineering artifacts that can be rationally explained and reliably designed and manufactured down to...
"Computers are magic because semiconductors take quantum effects into account and Feynman snarked that nobody understand quantum physics" is a poor ar...
He meant interpretations of quantum physics. Feynman perfectly well understood the physics of it. But even taking you at your out-of-context interpret...
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