In the top one you will never actually kill an infinite number of people, just approach it linearly. The bottom one will kill an infinite amount of people in finite time.
Edit: assuming constant speed of the train.
I’m going bottom.
NOT LIKE THAT. Not like sexually. I just mean I want to kill all the people on the bottom with my train.
Too late! Now bend…
I pull the lever, if the cart goes over the real numbers it will instantly kill an infinite amount of people and continue killing an infinite amount of people for every moment for the rest of existence.
If I pull the lever a finite amount of people will die instantly and slowly over time tending twords infinity but due to the linear nature of movement it would never actually reach Infinity even if there are an infinite number of people tied to the track a finite amount is all that could ever die.
The second one. It’ll be a bit rough, but overall should be a smoother ride for the occupants.
Is there a way to take both routes?
Hit the hand brake and drift that sucker.
with my knack for drifting i’ll miss both and hit something else entirely even within this imaginary scenario
You dont have to since the set of all positive integers belongs to the set of all real numbers, you actually hit both tracks by just taking the lower track.
never doubt my ability to mess up the unmessable. i just might stumble into disabling clipping and end up falling forever.
Bottom has infinite density and will collapse into a black hole killing everyone, and destroying the tram and lever.
Ah, so now Schwarzschild is driving the trolley!
Or maybe he’s coming to stop the trolley!
Or maybe Feynman is coming, to renormalize the infinities!
I really don’t know anymore! Aleph nought, Aleph omega…
go away, come again some other… perhaps infinite… day.
I mean, the bottom. The trolley simply would stop, get gunked up by all the guts and the sheer amount of bodies so close together. Checkmate tolley.
Top case is not the smallest infinite; going for prime number would save a lot of time for a lot of people before they die
depends on what you mean by “smallest”
Doesn’t matter, there are not enough people to try this anyway
Depends on the speed of the trolley.
Not with that attitude
- I lay some extra track so the train runs over the perverts that come up with these “dilemmas” instead. Problem solved. 👍
I thought that the correct answer to these was making a loop on the right, merging the lines.
The answer is multi track drifting
What about a time loop where only one person dies, but infinite times?
An infinite amount of people on the track implies that the track is infinitely long. If that is not the case and the track is a normal length then the sudden addition of all that bio-mass in a finite space will cause a gravitational collapse. But will the collapse start on the first track or the second? Either way I hope you saved your game because you might lose your progress.
The mass of dead bodies is what replenishes the new living ones on the finite track.
The infamious theory of infinitly-expanding train track in porportion with train-travelled distence sequared by prof. buttnugget
Q.E.D.
Good to know there are roughly 6 real numbers for every integer
If there are child real numbers then you can fit more.
Multilane drifting!
Actually… this means there are infinite people so:
Let X be the number of people killed = (-infinity)
As infity is defined :
infinity + X = infinity
infinity + (-infinity) =
infinity - infinity = infinty
So no people would have died black guy pointing at his head meme
