Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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They say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility. (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by rscky1@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You made me realize that we always think of infinity as an immensely large number, but it can be an immensely small number (0.0(infinite)1).

We imagine the vastness of space and forget that people are studying what makes up quarks.

So thanks for making me realize infinity stretches in both the inifinitely large and the infinitely small. Wasn’t expecting to get a ride on the total perspective vortex from showerthoughts today.

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Very good, what you described is called an Infinitesimal, and it is a building block of Calculus.