Re: coin puzzle

From: |-|erc (h_at_r.c)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:00:29 +1000

"Alan Smaill" <smaill@SPAMinf.ed.ac.uk> wrote in > >> >>
> >> >>One person turns a coin over at times 0, 1/2, 3/4, 7/8 ...
> >> >>
> >> >>The coin is head up at the start.
> >> >>
> >> >>Is it head or tail up at time 1?
> >> >
> >> > It's in a quantum state -- indeterminate until you observe it.
> >>
> >> (I'm curious why comments at the level of physics are raised
> >> to my question, and not Herc's, which equally supposes something
> >> impossible according to current physics)
> >
> > My question is well formed, yours is a self negating statement since you
> > added that the end of an infinite line is present.
>
> Certainly not; you can pick up a coin, turn it over, and put
> it back down in the same place, can't you?
> Even easier than getting infinitely many people together,
> I dare say.
>
> There is no infinite line here, everything happens in a bounded space.
> My assumptions are no more problematic than yours.
>
> So, answer the question: heads or tails?
>

You're either an idiot or a stupid liar. together with the assumption of infinite flip
speed at the singularity t=1, you're scenerio is impossible, mine is possible.

In my puzzle, you *roll* the coin futher and further away, the contradiction at t=1
is solved, the coin forms an infinitely long sequence and you see any flip in N
but not the end.

That's 4 times I've told you, take your petty counter example to your own thread.

Note : still everyone has avoided the question how long the coin sequence is while
still not unique.

Herc

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