Joth Tupper writes:
>the Bolzano-Tarski theorem proved (what, back in the 1920's?)
>that you could cut a solid 3D sphere into finitely many chunks,
>then rearrange the chunks to make another solid (no holes or gaps)
>3D sphere with _twice_ the volume. Pretty spooky, I always felt.
I don't know about spooky, but 'twould seem to violate conservation
of mass (or mass/energy, if you're a postmodern relativist :),
'twouldn't it?
(BTW, the word "'twouldn't" has NOT been certified as correct
English by Professor J. Milstein - something about waiting for the
check to clear...)
Now back to our regular programming.
-Ernst
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