earthwormchuck163 comments on Explained: Gödel's theorem and the Banach-Tarski Paradox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 January 2012 12:05:13AM 2 points [-]

To go the rest of the way and you need to use something other than rotations about the origin, ie something more than just the action of F2.

To go the rest of the way you still only use rotations, just not the rotations in F2.

Comment author: earthwormchuck163 08 January 2012 06:24:53PM 0 points [-]

The way I always did it was to use rotations about some fixed line that doesn't go through 0.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 January 2012 09:19:06PM 3 points [-]

We seem to be talking about different things, I'm talking about doubling the surface of the sphere. You're talking about how to get the center once you've doubled the surface.

Comment author: earthwormchuck163 08 January 2012 10:12:44PM 1 point [-]

Ahh yes, you're right.

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