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After an infinite number of loops are any of the original passengers still on the trolley?
Anything moving at light speed does not experience the passage of time, so yes. Nobody can actually get off the trolley.
If time stops for people on the trolley, wouldn't their subjective experience be of immediately getting off the trolley?
Without solving the collatz conjecture I think you can see it always stays above zero.
Sure, the total number of passengers does, but do any of the original passengers stay on the entire time as new passengers cycle on and off?
i think that can’t really be answered bc there’s no hard rules on who specifically gets off.
it it’s first-on, first-off then all the original riders would cycle out in as little as 2 cycles. but if it’s first-on, LAST-off then at least 1 person from the original bunch would always be on the train.
if it’s random, who knows! someone who took probability and statistics can work that one out lmao