I was listening to a podcast featuring Neil Degrasse Tyson where he learned that 2 basketballs can fit through the same hoop side by aide because the hoop is 4 times the size of 1 ball, yet I can’t picture in my head how that’s possible
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Without having access to what he was saying directly, all I can imagine he is saying is that the total area is enough to cover it, but the shape of the basketballs makes it impossible. If you took one of the basketballs and deformed it so that it’s still occupy the same amount of volume but was in a ring around the other basketball, then it would work.
It is kind of like how despite the fact that I am a 6ft tall man, I can fit through a moderately large doggy door. It just requires a heck of a lot of work and contortion.
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