• sploosh@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Klein bottles have no inside, so no. Either that or everything is in every Klein bottle.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Either that or everything is in every Klein bottle.

      That would still be a no because no ship can be put in a Klein bottle if every ship is already in the Klein bottle.

  • dmention7@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I’d ask the inverse. What definition of “inside” can you apply to a traditional bottle–so as to say that a ship is inside the bottle–that could not also be applied to a Klein bottle? Both of them have a single opening that leads to an enclosed, dead-ended volume.

    A Klein bottle may only have one surface, and therefore you can argue it has no topological inside. But a traditional bottle is topologically equivalent to a flat disc, so the same logic would say you can’t put a ship inside one of those either.

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      2 months ago

      Once you put a cork in the neck of the bottle, it is no longer a disc and can contain other objects.

      • Krudler@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        If a question is structured such that it’s unanswerable you’ve got a stupid question on your hands.

        Everybody knows that “no stupid questions” means you’re not supposed to be embarrassed by asking something you don’t know.

        But when you show up asking a specifically unanswerable question, you’re just a troll. Yes a harmless troll but it’s just trolling; it’s just time wasting.