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Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object

I choose to believe that the universe will crash due to division by zero, floating-point error, integer overflow and segmentation fault, all of them occurring simultaneously. The objects will experience infinite velocity and infinite forces, there will be rounding errors, the system will run out of RAM and storage space. The universal CPU will max out all threads, and run out of cooling capacity. The hardware catches fire, the entire universe immediately collapses into a singularity, resulting in a new big bang as the system reboots. Oh, and the log files are corrupted, so good luck troubleshooting that one.

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gnufuu@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
A popup will appear asking you to buy the “Extended Physics” DLC

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- Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  First billion years free. After that it’s 17.99 per millennia.
  
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  - lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    What currency?
    
    I doubt the universe accepts Euro or whatever.
    
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    noxonad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It’s just 17.99. Take it or leave it.
    
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starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
That’s actually how black holes are made

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Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Division by zero is just zero.

Just think about it. You have 4 slices of pie and 0 people to eat any.

How much pie did each of those 0 people eat. Clearly 0.

Education took us for absolute fools.

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- WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s just as true a statement to say each of those 0 people at a billion slices of pie.
  
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  - Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The pie went bad and disintegrated. Its energy got reconverted into the 0 that is all.
    
    If its not clear i was not being all that serious with my last comment. Re constructing math from my own first the principles of math is something i prefer to do as a hypothetical mind game rather then to find a real profound breakthrough.
    
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- Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  This one is a bit counterintuitive. My maths teacher explained it like this. Take a look at this graph. If you approach zero from the positive side, it looks like the line goes to infinity. If you approach zero from the negative side, it appears to go to negative infinity.
  
  Is it both, is it zero, is it all the values? The canonical answer is “undefined”.
  
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