The collapse of supertasks
Serie: Trabajos publicados del IAR ; no. 1215
Resumen: A supertask consists in the performance of an infinite number of actions in a finite time. I show that any attempt to carry out a supertask will produce a divergence of the curvature of spacetime, resulting in the formation of a black hole. I maintain that supertasks, contrarily to a popular view among philosophers, are physically impossible. Supertasks, literally, collapse under their own weight
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Foundations of Science — Springer ISSN 1233-1821 — Vol. 19, (2014), p. 209-216