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Physicists have created a quantum version of a famous thought experiment: the so-called Hilbert Hotel, which is always full and yet a vacancy can always be found for additional unexpected guests. Back ...

Hilbert’s Infinite Hotel looks simple on the outside - until you learn it has an endless number of rooms, all already filled ...

Jarenlang dacht ik dat Hilberts hotel een prachtig voorbeeld vormde van de Wet van Stigler, die zegt dat wetenschappelijke concepten nooit vernoemd worden naar de naam van de eerste bedenker. Om te ...

Find out about an old paradox dreamed up by mathematicians in the roaring twenties. It takes a simple (and hypothetical) hotel and uses it to peer into the eyes of the infinite. After a long, tedious ...

A mind-bogglingly large hotel has provided inspiration for expanding the data-carrying capacity of light. A new technique that manipulates the twistiness of light is the optical equivalent of a ...

Het liefste zou ik antwoorden dat er altijd ruimte is voor nóg iemand erbij om van te houden, zoals in Hilberts hotel waar er altijd iemand bij kan. Dit hotel bestaat niet echt, maar is een wiskundig ...

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA brilliant bringing to life of David Hilbert's idea of an infinite hotel. Packed full of references to properties and paradoxes of the infinite, all done with ...