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Einfach
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It seems to make absolutely no sense whatsoever, so if anyone out there understands it, could they please explain it here?

http://www.ms.uky.edu/~lee/banach.pdf

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A mathematical sphere is infinitely divisible - it is a perfect sphere and it contains an infinite number of points.

Thus making the Banach-Tarski paradox weird, but a little less weird.


Well, in a finite universe nothing in infinite. It is all hypothetical. It is also impossible to make a perfect sphere. All spheres are equally and infinitely divisible. What I think in my mind is have a pea so dense that when you take it apart, you have a large but hollow sphere, but that isn't correct. Well, it is hard for me to understand.

This thread kind of opened my eyes, even though I don't really understand some of it.
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