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Always thought we stopped to soon. At some point things may cease to be divisible. Plank scale is still pretty deep down the well.
by treeman79 5y ago
Always thought we stopped to soon. At some point things may cease to be divisible. Plank scale is still pretty deep down the well.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoOr perhaps they'll be some form of Mobius strip-like string-particle item that you can divide in two but still have a single item afterwards. Like self-healing strings that you divide in one [set of] dimension[s] and which simultaneously close up in some other dimension. Whether such an item is mathematically possible is left as an exercise for the reader ;o) (just an idea I had).
- tobmlt 5y agoI like it. There is a super fun ted(?) talk, that I can’t seem to find, with a guy constructing and cutting Möbius strips, and variations on that theme. Pretty unintuitive what a little twist can do! ...and I seemingly still cannot find it. A google will reveal many such videos, I think, but no time to search them out.
- filoeleven 5y agoMatt Parker has demonstrated this at least a couple of times on YouTube, I bet he’s who you’re thinking of. It is surprising! https://youtu.be/-u-O_2Hz82I https://youtu.be/-u-O_2Hz82I
- tobmlt 5y agoI think I was thinking of a Matt Parker video. I hadn’t seen this one though, thanks!
- officialjunk 5y agoperhaps you are thinking of this video from Numberphile with Tadashi Tokieda https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKV0GYvR2X8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKV0GYvR2X8
- tobmlt 5y agoI forgot about this one. It’s great, thank you! His video with the counterintuitive bead flows was great as well, if I recall. Lots of good stuff from this guy. Well, both numberphile and Tadashi Tokieda have lots of good stuff, I should say!