• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If Archimedes was god, could he create a world so large that any lever and fulcrum on which to place it would be impossible to move?

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      5 months ago

      No? Even if a world could be infinitely large, the statement still remains true. He simply states that “if he had a fulcrum big enough” he could move the world. With him being a god, he could create the fulcrum to always be big enough.

      I am not a math person, but I believe there is a way to define “infinity+1”. There was a numberphile episode where it was possible to have “multiple infinities”, I believe… (“infinity^2” or something? Don’t execute me. I literally have no idea what I am talking about.)