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Thomson's lamp

philosophical puzzle that is a variation on Zeno's paradoxes
Event Thought Experiment Q6125706

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
thought experiment, lamp, Zeno's paradoxes, supertask, logical contradiction[3][4][5][6]
Defining formula
[0, 1), [\frac{3}{2}, \frac{7}{4}), [\frac{15}{8}, \frac{31}{16}), \cdots[8]
Discoverer or inventor
James F. Thomson[2]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[9]
Named after
James F. Thomson[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Thomson's lamp ar مصباح تومسون de Thomson-Lampe es Lámpara de Thomson fr Lampe de Thomson he המנורה של תומסון it Lampada di Thomson ja トムソンのランプ th โคมไฟของทอมสัน uk Лампа Томсона zh 湯姆生的燈悖論 zh-hans 汤姆生的灯悖论
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Thomson's lamp graph.png ↗
Freebase ID
/m/04ld79
MathWorld ID
ThomsonLampParadox

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 5
logical contradiction, thought experiment, lamp, Zeno's paradoxes, supertask
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Mathematics
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Summary

Thomson's lamp is a thought experiment[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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