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> Instead they’re speculating about an orange in a box … which supposedly disintegrates then reassembles itself. Haven't watched it but that sounds like they
by andybak 4y ago
> Instead they’re speculating about an orange in a box … which supposedly disintegrates then reassembles itself.
Haven't watched it but that sounds like they were attempting to cover the Banach-Tarski Theorem?
- c1ccccc1 4y agoI have watched it, and it was actually talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor... Ironically Banach-Tarski would have been better suited for a movie about infinity. Poincare recurrence is relevant for amounts of time that are merely exponentially large, not infinite. I agree with Wadge that the movie was not very good, but I'm not actually sure what his objection is to the bit with the orange in a box, it seems fairly reasonable based on our current understanding of physics.