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Re: Banach-Tarski and Semantics --> infinity, P.D., rongorongo

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Subject: Re: Banach-Tarski and Semantics --> infinity, P.D., rongorongo
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by: Jeffrey Rubard - Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:34 UTC

On Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 11:34:39 AM UTC-8, Jacques Guy wrote:
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > SOMEONE's been hanging around this newsgroup a little too long ...
> POSSIBLY !
> But let me convert you too. Consider:
> > > You can fit A ZILLION ELEPHANTS on THE HEAD OF
> > > A PIN !!!! So says THEORY.
> And I prove it.
> 1. Cut off of the head of the pin.
> 2. Apply the Banach-Tarski trick RECURSIVELY on
> it. You get a pinhead as big as you want,
> and even bigger, bigger even than the
> biggest pinhead at MIT, and, let's face it,
> that's plenty big.
> 3. Bring on the elephants now. One zillion
> fit, with space to spare. One googolillion
> of them fit too. And guess what? Yes, still
> space to spare.
> 4. Bring on more elephants. Oops! not enough
> space to fit one googolplexillion.
> 5. Not to worry, just continue from step 2.
> See? It's recursive! (Oops, sorry, I meant:
> See? It's RECURSIVE !!!)
> Time for you to convert now and be received into the
> Communion of Infinite Believers.
> > BTW I just put a remark into an encyclopedia article (for an
> > encyclopedia of history) that the P.D. and rongorongo will probably
> > never be deciphered.
> I don't know about the Peter Daniels, but the other P.D.
> never will unless many more exemplars of its writing are
> found. And the rongorongo never will, period, because
> there are no more exemplars to be had. Carved on wood,
> they will all have rotted away by now. The best that can
> be hoped for is that the principles of this writing system
> will be worked out, and the meaning of a few recurring
> glyph sequences, with some degree of uncertainty.
> Rather more than less.

2022 Update: Probably similarly overworked -- the Craig Interpolation Lemma
and the Post Correspondence Problem. (Maybe they are more inherently interesting
though.)

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Re: Banach-Tarski and Semantics --> infinity, P.D., rongorongo	Jeffrey Rubard