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Uploaded by on May 27, 2007

Looking at the bouncing ball video uploaded earlier, exploring implications, for example regarding infinite regression

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  • Lol, this came up when I looked for Star Trek Voyager Infinitive Regress.

  • @NathanWubs ROFL ...[steeples fingers a la Mr. Burns] Excellent tags, so

  • Could you explain without formula why that ball stops at 8.24 ? I dun get it :/

  • @PlanetJeroen Every bounce takes a tiny bit of time, and there are an infinite number of them. But even so, if you add all those bits of time together, you get approximately 8.24

    Well, if all the ball's bounces fit in 8.24 seconds, there will be no bounce in progress at 8.25 seconds. The ball is still there though. So if it's there and it's not bouncing and it was bouncing earlier, well, then it must have stopped. Intuitive it's not. But it is correct.

  • I understand nothing of this but it's sure interresting if this idea could describe the origin of universe.

  • The video is not actually intended as a serious contender for a description of the origin of the universe. It's intended as an illustration of how bald assertions about what cannot be true about the origin of the universe aren't as self-evidently obvious as those who make them claim they are.

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  • @rozeboosje You've just hurt my brain, in a good way .. I'm gonna rewatch the previous in the series and try again :p

  • LOL

  • so if you look the world trough the example of bouncing ball we can explain the creation of everything like the ball bouncing "backwards" and therefor we live backwards :D :D XD and the universe will never end.

  • The fact is: our intuition fails us when it comes to thinking of infinities like that, especially when they are confined within limits. The only way to make any headway in comprehending them and being able to deal with them in a rational manner is mathematically. Check out Cantor.

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