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Author Topic: Infinite Cannonball Stacking Problem  (Read 1434 times)

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Re: Infinite Cannonball Stacking Problem
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2011, 07:04:34 pm »

The number of points in which matter can occupy a space is not infinite. IIRC, trying to put 2 objects closer together than the Planck length will result in their waveforms interacting in such a way as to prevent one another from getting closer than the Planck length. The problem itself is flawed because things don't work that way; it's indeed similar to asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin or how many Maxwell's demons can dance on each cannonball.
They're fermion cannonballs, they don't suffer from Pauli's exclusion principle. Incidentally, the cannons, being bosons, can't be placed on the same spot.
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