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If the world was made up of sand, could we ever count them all? Buildings, ceilings, everything sand; Humans too, and animals as well. All crumbled to dust, would anyone try? Would anyone care to count the dust we'll be reduced into? If we're all dust, are our numbers finally infinite? Does the count stretch on forever, are we never-ending swirls of dust? Well, one way to know, someone must count. There must be someone who's willing to do. Oh, wait. You? Do you want to count our molecules? Brilliant! Go ahead! Just let us crumble everything up! Huh? What do you mean, that you'll be dust too? You can't disintegrate, you've got work to do! What do you mean you quit? You didn't even start yet! Hmm... Well, it's too late, we've already started crumbling up. We'll be gone, and you'll be gone too. Yes, this is it. Goodbye, everyone. I guess we'll never know if we were infinite. I would've liked to -
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Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 7:28 AM UTC
Sand
If the world was made up of sand, could we ever count them all? Buildings, ceilings, everything sand; Humans too, and animals as well. All crumbled to dust, would anyone try? Would anyone care to count the dust we'll be reduced into? If we're all dust, are our numbers finally infinite? Does the count stretch on forever, are we never-ending swirls of dust? Well, one way to know, someone must count. There must be someone who's willing to do. Oh, wait. You? Do you want to count our molecules? Brilliant! Go ahead! Just let us crumble everything up! Huh? What do you mean, that you'll be dust too? You can't disintegrate, you've got work to do! What do you mean you quit? You didn't even start yet! Hmm... Well, it's too late, we've already started crumbling up. We'll be gone, and you'll be gone too. Yes, this is it. Goodbye, everyone. I guess we'll never know if we were infinite. I would've liked to -
This is the result of TOK class, from the question: 'If the world was completely made up of sand, is the number of sand finite or infinite?'
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Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 7:28 AM UTC
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