Timeline for What happens when a car starts moving? The last moment the car is at rest versus the first moment the car moves
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| Oct 16 at 14:35 | comment | added | JimmyJames | @g.kertesz I might be taking this too far, but I think the Banach-Tarski ("a pea can be chopped up and reassembled into the Sun") is a good example of how infinitesimals don't make sense in physical reality. | |
| Oct 16 at 9:15 | comment | added | g.kertesz | Let me add this. We are so accustomed to represent physical quantities with real numbers that we do not even think about it. Reals are a great abstraction, but somehow they are too "fine grained" for physics or anything "real world" for that matter. There are no physical measurements where we get the full spectrum of real numbers. This leads to paradoxes like this one or paradoxes about probabilities. | |
| Oct 15 at 19:46 | history | edited | JimmyJames | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 15 at 19:34 | history | answered | JimmyJames | CC BY-SA 4.0 |