wichy: > The question of the Thompson's Lamp seems to me either doesn't not have > anything to do with physics. Time does not have to shrink; we don't even > need to deal with time. To me is the same problem than ask what happen > with the infinite sum 1-1+1-1+1-1+1....... Is it 0 or 1? (Here +1 stand > for ON and -1 OFF). It is just an arithmetical question. I don't know > the present status of such dilemma. Does anyone know?
Yes, it is equivalent to asking if the last integer is even or odd, in a series which goes to ... Aleph. The term 'lamp' diverts our imagination. The 'lamp' cannot go to Aleph. (But there are quantum objects, like a particle in a box, which produce fractal patterns, in space and in time, thus you could build a different weird paradox, maybe.)
