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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All trolleys to date have been finite. A trolley which can kill an infinite number of people would truly be a marvel of engineering.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Every finite trolley passes infinitely many points when moves, if you accept space as infinitly divisible (structured as the real numbers).