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Old 03-17-2015, 11:23 AM   #4980
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Can you explain the Banach–Tarski paradox?
Doesn't it only works with mathematical spheres, not "real" physical ones? On a purely mathematical level, the sphere is infinitely dense -- divide infinity by two, and you still have infinity (two infinities now) -- so why wouldn't you have twice as much mass to work with?

But isn't it rather a stretch to go from there to "one == infinity"?
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