Let's imagine you are racing a tortoise, the tortoise has a 10 yard lead in the start, and...
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Let's imagine you are racing a tortoise, the tortoise has a 10 yard lead in the start, and in the time it takes you to run 10 yards, the tortoise's moved maybe one yard. So alright, you're faster than the tortoise but you cannot never catch it, you can only decrease his lead. Now certainly you can run past the tortoise as long as you don't contemplate the mechanics of that, but the question of how turns out to be so complicated that no one really solved it until Cantor proved that some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I think that answers your question.
Let's imagine you are racing a tortoise, the tortoise has a 10 yard lead in the start, and in the time it takes you to run 10 yards, the tortoise's moved maybe one yard. So alright, you're faster than the tortoise but you cannot never catch it, you can only decrease his lead. Now certainly you can run past the tortoise as long as you don't contemplate the mechanics of that, but the question of how turns out to be so complicated that no one really solved it until Cantor proved that some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I think that answers your question.
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Let's imagine you're racing a tortoise
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The tortoise has a ten yard head start
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In the time it takes you to run ten yards
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the tortoise has moved maybe one yard and so on forever
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You're faster than the tortoise
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but you can never catch him you see
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You can only decrease his lead
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Now certainly you can run past the tortoise
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as long as you don't contemplate the mechanics involved
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But the question of how
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turns out to be so complicated
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that no one really solved it
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until Cantor's proof that some infinities
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are bigger than other infinities
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I assume that answers your question
Clip duration: 48 seconds
Views: 136
Timestamp in movie: 01h 10m 57s
Uploaded: 20 November, 2022
Genres: drama, romance
Summary: Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam.
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