TranscriptA screenshot saying "Your child's Results, Your child's BMI is Infinity. That puts them in the 100th percentile which indicates that they are obese."

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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That just means that as their mass approached infinity their volume approached zero. The person is simply a black hole.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's possible this child is simply traveling at or near the speed of light.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Only if the measurement was being taken from a reference frame that was mostly at rest with respect to the person tho, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not so fast, we don't know that a black hole has a singularity. It's more like, the math divided by zero, and we shrugged, and went, well, I guess that doesn't work.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's what a singularity is. It's literally a maths term for an undefined point in a function.

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