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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Infinity is not a number. Cat :)
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Question Earth Moon Origin.
    I believe the most widely accepted theory for the origin of the Moon is still that it formed from the debris of a collision between...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread On the nature of light.
    "Set a trap to catch a wave - and you catch a wave; set a trap to catch a particle - and you catch a particle". Cat :)
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Gibsense, When you play serious chess, like I did, at County, or even serious club, levels, you have to write down all your moves. You...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    There is an additional Rule which prevents endless moves around a nearly empty board: Cat :)
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    Catastrophe reacted to Gibsense's post in the thread Does the Future Already Exist? with Like Like.
    Cat: I would just like to add that, if different people have different insights, and, perhaps see more in an analogy, then that is fine...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Gibsense, Cat :)
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    Russell Crawford's 'Broad brush' approach leads to new perspectives on understanding the universe. His comments have forced me to...
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    Catastrophe reacted to Gibsense's post in the thread Infinity with Like Like.
    Ok, but even so instead of 123456789 you get 2 4 6 8 etc which is a different infinity That is twice as big, lol And there are then an...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Gibsense, The point was about the the number of legal chess positions, which obviously relates the positions of all numbers of pieces...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    As I posted, such situations (which are rare anyway) are usually by agreement. A ;player might repeat twice to see if the opponent is...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Please check reference, which includes Such situations normally occur only when there are few pieces left, and either few/no pawns, or...
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    Catastrophe reacted to whoknows's post in the thread Infinity with Like Like.
    "Is infinity unreal? We talk about infinite space or an infinite number of real numbers between 0 and 1 a sort of endless division by 2...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    As a long term chess player of some reasonable standard, I should comment on the number of positions quoted in #7. If this means, as I...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Cat :)