On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
*>>That depends on if Euclid, a mathematician not a physicist, was right > and there are an infinite number of points in a line, or if there are only > an astronomical number to an astronomical power number of them. And nobody > knows which of those two possibilities is true. * > > > *> Between zero and 90 degrees, there are an infinite number of RATIONAL > polarizer settings,* > *You understand that there is a difference between an abstract Euclidean circle and a real physical circle, the sort of circle that you make polarizers out of, don't you? Nobody doubts that between any two points in a Euclidean line you can always find a point between them, but is that also true for a real physical line? Can you really keep dividing up space up into smaller and smaller pieces forever? Nobody knows. And I could say the same thing about time. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* nbk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv23JoXkgvsiGz89CVATwkuyAOA7-ESzz%2BS9spGGOXYajQ%40mail.gmail.com.
