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veli_joza on Aug 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: List of unsolved problems in physics

I guess 'all the straws' is as many as you can remove. If you removed any more than that, you would have to put some back to return to bale of zero straws.

sklivvz1971 on Aug 16, 2016 [–]

Wait, but what is a straw: How many atoms are necessary for a straw to be a straw?

It's turtles all the way down!

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