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GooseFinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The Banach - Tarski Theorm is up there. Basically, a solid ball can be broken down into infinitely many points and rotated in such a way that that a copy of the original ball is produced. Duplication is mathematically sound! But physically impossible.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarski_paradox

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