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Infinite Hotel Paradox
(lemmy.world)
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
It has to do with countably infinite sets.
The analysis on Wikipedia does a better job of explaining the concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel#Analysis
The whole point is that it's something we can prove mathematically that is highly unintuitive.