"Perhaps you've heard of Thompson's Lamp. This is an IDEAL lamp, capable of
INFINITE switching SPEED and using electricity that travels at INFINITE SPEED."
Is it pedantic of me to point out that this is an IDEAL lamp, i.e. one which only
exists as an idea, and one which, because of its transcenden
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From: "Eric Hawthorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Ideal lamps
> "Perhaps you've heard of Thompson's Lamp. This is an IDEAL l
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:15:57PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:
> I don't know why anyone thought the speed of light had anything to do
Maybe you should read up on general relativity.
> with this problem. The lamp can be at a single point and so can its
A geometrical point has zero length and wi
Like I said, in mathematics, there MAY be an answer, depending what
mathematical theory
you choose. Even within mathematics, there may be questions that don't
have an answer, and
are ill-formed, and only seem well-formed because they seem to read ok
in informal English.
Without your extra axiom,
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
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 st
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