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- Mon May 20, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: frankensalt - yay or nay?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 235
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Are there any Shaman Sprints or Dealer's Exclusives planned?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 291
Re: Are there any Shaman Sprints or Dealer's Exclusives planned?
We need a Magnacut Shaman first
- Sun May 19, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: What Spyderco is in your pocket today??
- Replies: 49398
- Views: 6006353
Re: What Spyderco is in your pocket today??
All hail the Nirvana, may it reign forever over the S90V knives.
- Sat May 18, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Why are the blade markings on Magnacut models so much lighter?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 611
Re: Why are the blade markings on Magnacut models so much lighter?
I really like the lighter engraving, it compliments the handle I chose perfectly.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:00 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Upcoming P.I.T.S. 2
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4094
Re: Upcoming P.I.T.S. 2
And I just found this video of Mike Read's prototype which looks very similar:
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:48 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Upcoming P.I.T.S. 2
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4094
Re: Upcoming P.I.T.S. 2
The original PITS is one of my favorite Spyderco knives. The new one doesn't do much for me aesthetically, but it's still interesting.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
What you are missing is the act of dividing '1' into infinite parts can continue forever. It can, but it doesn't have to. And dividing up a minute cannot continue "forever" by definition. You mean you can divide up the minute infinitely, which doesn't somehow magically make the parts sum ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
But no matter the constant nature of the sum of the total parts, you can stay in the process of incremental division FOREVER. Welcome to the paradox. Forever is a statement of time. The infinite division will be done after 100s, not forever. You're again confusing amount of actions with time, and c...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
Here's a more interesting problem: You have a closed PM2 in your hand. After 1/2 a minute you flick it open. 1/4 a minute later you close it. 1/8 a minute after that you flick it open. You repeat this process until 1 minute total has passed. At that time will the knife be open or closed?
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
I don't think you've shown finite time. I gave you a mathematical proof. Can you explain what part of it is wrong? You're taking the thousand foot view of it and seeing the whole as finite. No, I calculated it from the bottom up. As I keep saying the paradox lies in the process of dividing. Which c...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
Where does this end ? '...' What do you mean by "end?" It doesn't have a final term, if that's what you mean. It's an infinite sum. And if you reduce the time to complete the next step by a fraction (or another way to say it would be to increase the speed to complete the next step), don't...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
Let me try again. We agree that you can divide a unit into infinite steps, yes? I think we agree. If we don't agree on this, we don't agree on the premise of the pardox. Of course. Imagine you are trying to write out every one of those steps, or take every one of those infinite steps. Can you expla...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
You don't see the contradiction? It doesn't matter if the time it takes to cross the next half distance gets faster with each step, there's always another distance to cross. You can't reach the end of an infinite set of steps no matter how fast you go through them. There are endless 'infinite' step...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
And here is where the pardox lies. Every number represents or describes a point in space. Like notches on a ruler. There are infinite numbers between two points. Do you see the pardox? It is both correct that a mile is a mile, and that you can divide it infinitely. I don't see the paradox. How does...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:03 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
Well in this case we were talking about the "process" of halving space, so that process has no limit? Or in other words you could half space infinitely without end? That's the same as asking if there's a final number of the form 1/2^n. There isn't. There are infinite integers n and infini...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:15 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
But math it seems to me takes some liberties that step over philosophy. The idea that an infinite sequence adds up to a finite number is incorrect to me. Try adding up a bunch of terms of the sequence 1/2+1/4+1/8+... and you'll quickly see they approach 1. They are never going above 1, let alone gr...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
@Synov Thanks for typing all that out. Big thumbs up from a fellow mathematician, everything is spot on, a joy to read. Thanks benja-man, I've tried to hone this particular spiel over many years of internet discussions. When it comes to infinity and the physical world I'd like to add that our world...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:15 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
Half the time it takes you say? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but as you 'approach' zero, can't you half the time infinitely if you keep making the fraction of time smaller? Yes, that's exactly why I said the number of fractional distances would be infinite. Sure, as you say you can add them all togethe...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Edge Is A Ghost?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4550
Re: The Edge Is A Ghost?
Since this thread has been resurrected from its ghostly form, I thought I would take the opportunity for a math lesson. The way I've interpreted it is similarly to the Zeno's Paradox where if you travel half the distance between two points, and then half that distance, and half that distance and so ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Sage series collection - What's the next Sage?
- Replies: 115
- Views: 5480
Re: Sage series collection - What's the next Sage?
Well we know the Sage 5 in Rex 121 is coming at some point.