it would take an infinite amount of time to even get around to stating the first real number, so nobody would die
alternatively, the above doesn’t work and instead everybody gets run over in a time span shorter than a nanosecond because there’s an infinite number of real numbers within even the smallest time interval. This also means the trolley is moving at faster than the speed of light, so suffering is minimized, and laws of physics are violated (a twofer)
In finite time the trolley would have killed infinite people already on the real track. On the integer track only a finite people are killed in that same time.
In finite time the trolley would have killed infinite people already on the real track
yes, which means the trolley would have to be traveling faster than the speed of light, or, we have a novel stacking method for fitting infinite numbers of people into a finite amount of train-track space
real infinity, not integer infinity
it would take an infinite amount of time to even get around to stating the first real number, so nobody would die
alternatively, the above doesn’t work and instead everybody gets run over in a time span shorter than a nanosecond because there’s an infinite number of real numbers within even the smallest time interval. This also means the trolley is moving at faster than the speed of light, so suffering is minimized, and laws of physics are violated (a twofer)
In finite time the trolley would have killed infinite people already on the real track. On the integer track only a finite people are killed in that same time.
yes, which means the trolley would have to be traveling faster than the speed of light, or, we have a novel stacking method for fitting infinite numbers of people into a finite amount of train-track space