Isn't it true that an electron can be in two places at once? Does that mean square triangles are possible?
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Are quantum square triangles possible?
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Serious answer? Electrons can't be in two places at once. They can just be anywhere at once; whether they are, is a funny question. An electron can pop out of an atom, but it's not really in two places at once.
Square triangles are mathematically impossible, no amount of quantum queerness will change that.
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Serious answer? Electrons can't be in two places at once. They can just be anywhere at once; whether they are, is a funny question. An electron can pop out of an atom, but it's not really in two places at once.
Square triangles are mathematically impossible, no amount of quantum queerness will change that.
Try telling that to dad who believes that it could easily have been possible for pi to equal 3 in some places (rather than 3.141 etc).
Is this a trick question?
I guess you could consider it a polygon with an infinite number of sides.
Well, I guess that could be right if we're talking about the concept of a circle rather than a physical circle that you can observe. Even a circle drawn with a very fine pencil will have a finite number of sides as a result of its perimeter being made up of a finite number of atoms.
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Oh I gave up on him a long time agoTry telling that to dad who believes that it could easily have been possible for pi to equal 3 in some places (rather than 3.141 etc).
Different states and fishbowl PO science just made me angry, grr.What about spacetime? Can we imagine a perfect square traced out in spacetime, and then imagine space warping to turn it into a perfect square?
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Can you create a perfectly smooth circle with physical reality?
Hmm.
Light - not really, you can't have an infinite number of photons either. If you can't have an infinite number of them, it doesn't matter that they don't have much of a size
Hey! Can you do it with space, rather than matter (event horizon of a black hole, for example)? Or is space also made up of finite-sized components?
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Oh I gave up on him a long time ago
What about spacetime? Can we imagine a perfect square traced out in spacetime, and then imagine space warping to turn it into a perfect square?
Please don't ask me these sorts of questions. My head is on the verge of doing this. Cheers.
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In light of that there should be square triangles for certain curvatures of space time.
For example, space time warping so that if I traveled in what was a triangle from my perspective, but was actually a square from where I had traveled.
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