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  • drengbarazi@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyztemperature
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    6 months ago

    I get what you are saying, it is unintuitive that you can call a water molecule water. Because water, when found in nature, is always a mixture, right? Needs more than a single substance to be a mixture.

    Entertain this, though: a group with a single element is still a group.

    Wouldn’t you say a pure water substance can be reduced to a single water molecule? It still is pure water substance.






  • drengbarazi@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThink about it
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    7 months ago

    same as x * .5 = .25 if that somehow helps ya

    I suspect people might be getting confused by this because of colloquialisms like “divided in half”, “divided in the middle”, “divided by two”

    things is, math doesn’t care about idioms

    another area in mathematics that I’ve seen ppl (myself included lmao) suffer from this is propositional logic. like with the non exclusive nature of the OR operator

    but this is all just a wild guess




  • drengbarazi@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzhmmmm
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    7 months ago

    I don’t think a black hole would have time to form before the entire universal collapse, though

    that’s infinite mass inside infinite volume right there, we aren’t talking about only infinite density anymore

    we need to get a theoretical physicist on this… track