I was surprised to see this subject heading on sci.math. I thought
it might have to do with the following lyrics (I forget the name of
the group and the song):
"I smoke two joints at two o' clock;
I smoke two joints at four.
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more."
Given an infinite supply of marijuana, even granting immortality
to Cheech and Chong would not make the above feat possible. One
would need to have existed for an infinite amout of time.
And even then, smoking a joint takes at least one Planck time unit,
so if you plot on a time-line the points at which each joint-pair-
smoking finishes, there can't be any accumulation points. This
would seem to preclude any such feat of pot-smoking . . . unless
you somehow exist in a strange temporal topology (e.g., the long
line).
So then, how much marijuana would one have to smoke to actually
change the nature of (one's personal) time in such a way? I'm
guessing that no finite amount would suffice, but do not hazard
a guess as to the precise cardnality required.
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