Hilbert imagines a hypothetical hotel with rooms numbered 1, 2, 3, and so on. The hotel is full and new guest arrives wanting a room. I can not move any guest. So i say to new guest wait 1 sec a new room must become available as Infinite guests one must leaving at any time.

is this good answer?

  • frongt@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    If they all step out and into the new rooms at the same time, it’s possible.

    It’s not a mathematical paradox, only against intuition.

    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      But how would they all know when to step out and into new room?

      They need some kind of a signal (bell, phone call, flashing light, speaker instructing them to move, …)

      Fastest of these communication is light which has maximum speed of 300,000 km/s

      The light will reach first room instantly but since number of rooms is infinite, the light need infinite time to reach that last room