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The Banach–Tarski Paradox

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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. There's a famous way

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to seemingly create chocolate out of nothing.

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Maybe you've seen it before. This chocolate bar is

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4 squares by 8 squares, but if you cut it like this

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and then like this and finally like this

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you can rearrange the pieces like so

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and wind up with the same 4 by 8

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bar but with a leftover piece, apparently created

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out of thin air. There's a popular animation of this illusion

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as well. I call it an illusion because

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it's just that. Fake. In reality,

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the final bar is a bit smaller. It contains

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this much less chocolate. Each square along the cut is shorter than it was in

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the original,

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but the cut makes it difficult to notice right away. The animation is

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extra misleading, because it tries to cover up its deception.

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The lost height of each square is surreptitiously

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added in while the piece moves to make it hard to notice.

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I mean, come on, obviously you cannot cut up a chocolate bar

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and rearrange the pieces into more than you started with.

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Or can you? One of the strangest

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theorems in modern mathematics is the Banach-Tarski

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paradox.

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It proves that there is, in fact, a way to take an object

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and separate it into 5

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different pieces.

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And then, with those five pieces, simply

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rearrange them. No stretching required into

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two exact copies of the original

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item. Same density, same size,

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same everything.

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Seriously. To dive into the mind blow

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that it is and the way it fundamentally questions math

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and ourselves, we have to start by asking a few questions.

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First, what is infinity?

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A number? I mean, it's nowhere

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on the number line, but we often say things like

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there's an infinite "number" of blah-blah-blah.

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And as far as we know, infinity could be real.

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The universe may be infinite in size

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and flat, extending out for ever and ever

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without end, beyond even the part we can observe

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or ever hope to observe.

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That's exactly what infinity is. Not a number

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per se, but rather a size. The size

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of something that doesn't end. Infinity is not the biggest

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number, instead, it is how many numbers

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there are. But there are different sizes of infinity.

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The smallest type of infinity is

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countable infinity. The number of hours

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in forever. It's also the number of whole numbers that there are,

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natural number, the numbers we use when counting

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things, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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and so on. Sets like these are unending,

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but they are countable. Countable means that you can count them

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from one element to any other in a

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finite amount of time, even if that finite amount of time is longer than you

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will live

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or the universe will exist for, it's still finite.

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Uncountable infinity, on the other hand, is literally

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bigger. Too big to even count.

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The number of real numbers that there are,

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not just whole numbers, but all numbers is

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uncountably infinite. You literally cannot count

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even from 0 to 1 in a finite amount of time by naming

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every real number in between. I mean,

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where do you even start? Zero,

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okay. But what comes next? 0.000000...

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Eventually, we would imagine a 1

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going somewhere at the end, but there is no end.

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We could always add another 0. Uncountability

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makes this set so much larger than the set of all whole numbers

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that even between 0 and 1, there are more numbers

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than there are whole numbers on the entire endless number line.

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Georg Cantor's famous diagonal argument helps

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illustrate this. Imagine listing every number

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between zero and one. Since they are uncountable and can't be listed in order,

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let's imagine randomly generating them forever

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