Layman's Guide to the Banach-Tarski Paradox

Layman's Guide to the Banach-Tarski Paradox

The BTP posits that it's possible to take a solid sphere, cut it into pieces, rearrange the pieces using nothing more than rotation and translation, and then re-assemble them into two identical copies of the original sphere. "In other words," <I>www.kiro5hin.org</I&gt; explains, "you've doubled the volume of the original sphere."

Popular Myths

Popular Myths

Glad to learn these are myths. I've always wondered if my year in Peru was wasted just because I could never determine if the water swirled in the wrong direction in my basin. I still can't tell you which way it flows when I flush.

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