• jdr@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    After an infinite number of loops?

    After an infinite number of loops I’d want to be killed.

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      After an infinite number of loops are any of the original passengers still on the trolley?

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        Anything moving at light speed does not experience the passage of time, so yes. Nobody can actually get off the trolley.

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        7 hours ago

        Without solving the collatz conjecture I think you can see it always stays above zero.

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          Sure, the total number of passengers does, but do any of the original passengers stay on the entire time as new passengers cycle on and off?

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            i think that can’t really be answered bc there’s no hard rules on who specifically gets off.

            if it’s first-on, first-off then all the original riders would cycle out in as little as 2 cycles. but if it’s first-on, LAST-off then at least 1 person from the original bunch would always be on the train.

            if it’s random, who knows! someone who took probability and statistics can work that one out lmao