The top panel shows a calm mathematician stating that cardinal number c equals c + c. But the bottom panel? Pure mathematical chaos. That's someone losing their mind over the fact that you can split one sphere into two identical spheres. Welcome to the Banach-Tarski paradox, where the Axiom of Choice lets you defy intuition and decompose objects into pieces that somehow form two copies of the original. Mathematicians who reject this axiom are depicted having an existential crisis, as they should. The rest of us just accept that infinite sets are weird and move on with our research grants.
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