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But stirring doesn’t break the connnectedness of the water like that?

• kevinventullo 5y ago
  I guess wherever you dip the spoon in will break it in a kind of discontinuous way?
  • drdeca 5y ago
    If the spoon was one of those spoons with holes in the, non-handle-part, then I think it would have to produce a discontinuity. But for a normal spoon shape, I don’t think dipping it in makes the map between points in the water fail to be continuous. I’m somewhat confident that there is a smooth path from an embedding of a cylinder to R^3 to an embedding of a cylinder which is a little taller and has a spoon shape removed from it, into R^3 .