https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/infamous-sofa-problem-that-boggled-mathematicians-for-decades-may-finally-have-a-solution
The sofa on the staircase is an object in Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently books.
It is a sofa stuck in the staircase on the way to Richard MacDuff’s flat.
The sofa was bought by Richard MacDuff, but during the delivery it got stuck in the staircase halfway up to Richard’s flat, and could neither be moved further nor back down and out. Richard even asked the help of a neighbour’s spatially smart son, as well as simulating the problem on his computer, but all pronounced the sofa impossibly and irreversibly stuck.
By the time of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, the sofa had been stuck in the stairs for three weeks. Susan Way had moved back to her own flat until Richard would fix the situation.
When Richard, Dirk Gently, and Reg returned from visiting Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Reg’s flat materialised its door in the wall halfway up the staircase to Richard’s flat. They then traveled back in time three weeks for Richard to make a reservation at the restaurant L’Esprit d’Escalier, which coincided with the time the sofa was delivered. While Richard made the phone call, his friends opened the door for the delivery people, who thus were able to manoeuvre the sofa around by utilizing the extra space of the open doorway. The sofa was then impossibly stuck once the door was dematerialised again.
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25/09/2019
No, actually the sofa was jammed in the landing BECAUSE the delivery people were able to use the extra space of Reg’s open door to maneuver the sofa around the first corner. When the door closed, and therefore disappeared from that timeline, the sofa could not be moved up the stairs the rest of the way.
This is one of the two ‘impossible’ (or at least’inexplicable’) things Dirk says are vital to Richard’s account of the story.
https://dirkgently.fandom.com/wiki/Sofa_on_the_staircase
Not what I thought it was going to be.
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what a load of fucking dei see we’d have a lot more merit around if these illegal aliens weren’t talking all our jobs
If youse had any concept of popular culture, someone would have already posted this
Divine Angel said:
If youse had any concept of popular culture, someone would have already posted this
probably work in a vertical orientation.
maybe if you move it through the system quickly you can length contract it and fit even more sofa through
SCIENCE said:
maybe if you move it through the system quickly you can length contract it and fit even more sofa through
But it will be too heavy then.
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
maybe if you move it through the system quickly you can length contract it and fit even more sofa through
But it will be too heavy then.
Hmmmm surely the carriers will be moving at the same velocity as the sofa so to them the mass wont change. I’m not a relativistic expert though.
Divine Angel said:
If youse had any concept of popular culture…
You realise what forum you are on though, right?
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
If youse had any concept of popular culture…
You realise what forum you are on though, right?
Yeah, yeah, I expect too much.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
If youse had any concept of popular culture…
You realise what forum you are on though, right?
Yeah, yeah, I expect too much.
I never watched seinfeld.
JudgeMental said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:You realise what forum you are on though, right?
Yeah, yeah, I expect too much.
I never watched seinfeld.
lol.
For this problem we need a sofa king genius.