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I was sent an invite to this thread, in the hopes I would say something so totaly idiotic as to be amusing .

I decline.
Instead, I will proceed with utter seriousness to comment on the 'ultra-violet paradox', wherein the energy of a thought-experiment becomes infinite, and therefore seems to disprove classic physics.

The solution is in the quantum view that levels of energy are not infinite; there are 'jumps' in waves of energy with nothing between .

This is exactly the same as Zeno's paradox,
where it is shown that motion is impossible; because
before you can go from point A to point B, you
must Am I Boring Enough Yet Good go halfway to point C;
and before you can reach point C you must go halfway,
on thru infinity just as this paragraph goes on, ha ha serves that twerp RadioFreeEuropa right to invite me to make a fool of myself, like they did at the office party when they spiked my yogurt cup and got me to explain what 'Crymtyphon' meant, and I remember when I was a kid and spent all night in the woods hunting snipe yeah that was real funny wasn't it TehranChick so in quantum physics we actualy see that no ideal is infinitely divisible ; not space, not time not energy and damned certainly not my patience!

Thank you.

PS:
All my life I have stood on the shoulders of smaller men, because the bigger guys will knock you off if you are standing on them.

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