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by sillysaurus3 3385 days ago
The logic embedded in Supertasks and the Banach-Tarski Paradox has always seemed strange. It's not flawed, but it's so counterintuitive that it can seem like evidence that something in the logic of infinities must be wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUnNaQTfZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA

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Banach-Tarski isn't so much evidence that infinity or Choice is wrong, as evidence that the reals aren't a particularly good model of the real world.