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That depends on whether angels are bosons or fermions.
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Submitted 3 months ago by Krudler@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 months ago
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ooh quantum angels! i love it when two things i can’t ever understand combine powers
CII_RX@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I hope you love eyes too! Because they heavily invested in eyes.
Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can jesus microwave a burrito so hot that even he couldn’t eat it?
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not enough info. What wattage of microwave? What size and filling of the burrito? Is he allowed to drink water and/or wine between bites? Have you recently modified the DNS settings on the microwave?
glimse@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is gonna turn into a dumb shitpost community, isn’t it?
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It already is. That was the whole point of this post.
Yesterday a moderator told me that it was not a stupid question to ask if a ship can fit in a Klein bottle.
So I’m basically trolling. I’m leaving this community if the mods don’t step up.
It’s gotten totally out of hand.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I appreciate the troll. It’s always bugged me that this community took the name from reddit without the actual theme. This place should be for “common sense” questions you feel stupid having to ask but instead it’s mostly been ELI5, asklemmy, and a variety of loaded questions.
brax@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
How is that a stupid question though? Does the average person know that a Klein Bottle is a surface with zero volume?
Maybe they were wondering if it was no ship will ever fit or every ship ever made is would be in it at the same time?
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As many angels as actually exist.
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
All of them. None of them.
BlitzFitz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’d say since angels are imaginary, √-1 angels would fit on a pin head.
Libra@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
sqrt(-1).
brax@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
What is “women around me, described using math terms only”?
socsa@piefed.social 3 months ago
jAngel
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 3 months ago
42
stinerman@midwest.social 3 months ago
None, because they don’t exist.
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have many pins here, so try again.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Three but only if they want to and leave their friends behind.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
zero or more
AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I think the moderator is correct.
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They are wrong.
They are lazy.
If they don’t want to shape this into a community where people can actually ask questions that can produce a meaningul answers, it’s just a pointless chat room.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
pointless chat room.
that doesn’t sound too bad
itisileclerk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Right answer should be none, zero. I have few friends named Angel (that is their first name) and none of them can dance.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It depends on how you define angel.
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And “dance”, “on”, “the head of”, and “pin”.
“Can” weirdly enough doesn’t have sufficient variation to introduce uncertainty here.
Clear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
4 to 7 depending how fast they can move their feet
brax@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Angles have not been proven to exist, so I guess 0 and ∞.
If you can find proof of angels existing, then we would need to have more specifics:
- how big are the angels?
- what type of pin are you curious about? A fabric pin, for example, is much thinner than a pushpin.
- what style of dance might they be doing? A line dance would require significantly more space than, say, the Macarena.
We’d also need to find out if angels are solids, or if they could pass through eachother as that could reduce the space they need and alter the answer significantly.
Not sure what point you’re trying to make - people come from all walks of life… A stupid question to me may not be a stupid question to everyone else.
Would you know how to survive like a Sentinelese?
Could you tell me how to export a list of packages I have installed on my computer using pacman and yay so I can batch install them after wiping my computer?
Could you tell me the typical directory where I could find the word.dot file for any user?
Would you know why you can’t mix DOT2 and DOT3 but you can mix DOT3 and DOT4?
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Precisely as many angels as there are whole numbers, or exactly as many as the quantity of numbers you can count between 0 and 1 (0.5, 0.2341, etc).
The original context of the question was more about if angels and the afterlife were physically manifest or intangible, and early thinking about how infintesimals work.
nous@programming.dev 3 months ago
But there are more numbers between 0 and 1 then there are whole numbers. So are the countable many angles or uncountably many?
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
exactly as many as the quantity of numbers you can count between 0 and 1
I specified countable to keep them in the same class of infinity. :) not about to make that mistake when bringing pedantry to a silly fight. .
Since it’s implied that they have names, I’m going to use that as my argument for there being a countably infinite number. If you want to argue that only certain special angels have names, like Michael or π, then I’d say they’re uncountable.
If you wanted to argue that omnipotence means a deity could defy logical restrictions and allow contradictory truths to coexist, then I’d say I’m far too sleepy for that discussion but I love where you’re heads at. :P
CII_RX@lemm.ee 3 months ago
What kind of Angel, would be a follow-up. There’s different kinds.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
How big is the pin?
steeznson@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This was actually a Victorian parody question they invented to make fun of medieval philosophers. Nowadays we think Thomas Aquinas, etc. were making quite sophisticated points, albeit within the boundaries of the religious society of the time.
fargeol@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes
notarobot@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The right amount
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
5
lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 months ago
Ah, there it is.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
How big is the pin?
oo1@lemmings.world 3 months ago
mod(0,0)
SolidShake@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s just the one goose.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 months ago
7
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Krudler@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Please answer my question.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago