T&T: Angels au point

Tue Apr 15 07:07:48 EDT 2008

In a message dated 4/15/08 12:00:55 AM, Ken writes:

> guess next, I will discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin,
> or some other equally scintillating topic.
> {;-)
> 
> 
Ken,

The true philosophical question is "How many angels can dance on the POINT of 
a pin?" The topic was engendered by medieval scholastic thinkers confronting 
the conflicting ideas that a point had zero area and angels had zero 
dimension. The answers given ranged from one (i.e., 0/0 = 1) to Avogadro's number (a 
conclusion favored by my old professor of chemistry).

My boat gets launched in a couple of weeks and I can start wondering about 
the number of miles I can cruise as fuel prices approach infinity.

Larry Z

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