Therefore calculus, which started out based on the assumption of a continuous world (the "infinitesimal"), is a shortcut, a kludge It lets you calculate shit faster than counting up all the particles or whatever that are actually there
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The apocryphal words of Giordano Bruno as he was burned for the heresy of saying there were multiple solar systems with multiple worlds like ours and multiple races of humans throughout T universe "Your God is too small"
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Yes, and also it totally does exist.
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Yeah - and I mean, for that matter, you don't even have to look too hard for the world of the reals and Euclidean geometry to break down. I mean, we're on a curved surface after all. You need new assumptions.
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They're just a lot more complicated, because you can suddenly make a triangle with three right angles, and maybe the Pythagorean theorem isn't true, and pi isn't what it used to be.
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The Platonic Cinematic Universe
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That's only got 5 official films. The expanded universe has *48*. Or at least this fan believes after collating lots of apparently different expansions that are all linked.https://youtu.be/_hjRvZYkAgA
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