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I don't think this is true? Suppose I define "bread" as "that which has a net positive charge" [1]. Can I not put the bread candidate in an electric field in fl

by addaon 5y ago

I don't think this is true? Suppose I define "bread" as "that which has a net positive charge" [1]. Can I not put the bread candidate in an electric field in flat spacetime and measure (the direction of) its acceleration in a bounded time? I suppose I might be depending on its mass being finite, but the observable universe supports that assumption. [1] I don't think this is a very useful definition of bread.

MichaelBurge 5y ago
The original paper in Section 6 looks at the case of a magnetic field: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/buridan.pdf https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/buridan.pdf It's a practical issue that affects CPU design, which is also mentioned in the paper under the name "Arbiter Problem".