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Comment by CJefferson

Banach Tarski, in some sense, really can't make sense in the universe because the Universe is... discreteish, as you can't get smaller than the Planck Lenth (1.6 x 10^(-35)), and while that's very small, as far as maths is concerned that means the number of "identifiable points" in a sphere of any finite size is itself finite, not even a countable infinity.

I realise that's all very dodgy, but of course we are also bringing in quantum mechanics -- but I consider it enough to say Banach Tarski doesn't apply :)

parent CJefferson 3 years ago

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