Q&A: The Lamp Paradox
Originally published:
This is an English translation (via GPT-5.4). Read the original Hebrew version.
The Lamp Paradox
Question
What does the Rabbi think is the solution to Thomson's lamp paradox?
(an infinite series of switching off and on actions — in his example it is a convergent series)
Answer
I’m not familiar with it.
Discussion on Answer
No convergent series and no such thing. Even using that concept here, and the analogy to the alternating series, is nonsense.
I just took a look at Wikipedia:
https://he.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F
Is this a paradox? It's just nonsense, and its solution is obvious. See the section "A non-paradoxical formulation."