On 21/07/2020 21:22, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 21/07/2020 19:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
How many angels will fir on the head of a pin?

Which debate sounds less silly when you find out that the debate was not
over 10 or 100 or some such, but over finite vs infinite.

Andy

Indeed. Which is what string theory is. A way to counteract the
mathematical problems of 'point sources of mass' leading to infinite
gravitational fields, in the limit. Amongst other things.


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