Thomson's lamp

Summary

Thomson's lamp is a thought experiment^[1]. It draws 47 Wikipedia views per month (thought_experiment category, ranking #43 of 56).^[2]

Key Facts

• Thomson's lamp is credited with the discovery of James F. Thomson^[3].
• Thomson's lamp's image is recorded as Thomson's lamp graph.png^[4].
• Thomson's lamp's instance of is recorded as thought experiment^[5].
• Thomson's lamp's instance of is recorded as lamp^[6].
• Thomson's lamp's instance of is recorded as Zeno's paradoxes^[7].
• Thomson's lamp's instance of is recorded as supertask^[8].
• Thomson's lamp's instance of is recorded as logical contradiction^[9].
• James F. Thomson is named after Thomson's lamp^[10].
• Thomson's lamp's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04ld79^[11].
• Thomson's lamp's defining formula is recorded as [0, 1), [\frac{3}{2}, \frac{7}{4}), [\frac{15}{8}, \frac{31}{16}), \cdots^[12].
• Thomson's lamp's MathWorld ID is recorded as ThomsonLampParadox^[13].
• Thomson's lamp's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[14].

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Works and Contributions

Thomson's lamp is credited with the discovery of James F. Thomson^[3].

Why It Matters

Thomson's lamp draws 47 Wikipedia views per month (thought_experiment category, ranking #43 of 56).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[15]