Thomson's lamp is a philosophical puzzle based on infinites. It was devised in 1954 by British philosopher James F. Thomson, who used it to analyze the...

James F. Thomson (1921–1984) was a British philosopher who devised the puzzle of Thomson's lamp, to argue against the possibility of supertasks (a word...

term "supertask" was coined by the philosopher James F. Thomson, who devised Thomson's lamp. The term "hypertask" derives from Clark and Read in their...

An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc...

least non-intuitive, nature of infinity. More specifically, like the Thomson's lamp paradox, the Ross–Littlewood paradox tries to illustrate the conceptual...

philosophers, however, say that Zeno's paradoxes and their variations (see Thomson's lamp) remain relevant metaphysical problems. While mathematics can calculate...

balls to a vase infinitely often, how many balls remain? Thomson's lamp: After flicking a lamp on and off infinitely often, is it on or off? Banach–Tarski...

A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric...

An animation of an infinite time Turing machine based on the Thomson's lamp thought experiment. A cell alternates between 0 {\displaystyle 0} and 1 {\displaystyle...

+ 4 + 8 + ⋯ 1 − 2 + 4 − 8 + ⋯ Ramanujan summation Cesàro summation Thomson's lamp Devlin 1994, p. 77 Davis 1989, p. 152 Kline 1983, p. 307; Knopp 1990...

colleague of Thomson's at Central High School, Thomson founded the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. Notable inventions created by Thomson during this...

light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical device that produces light from electricity. It is the most common form of artificial lighting. Lamps usually...

A safety lamp is any of several types of lamp that provides illumination in places such as coal mines where the air may carry coal dust or a build-up of...

A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path...

influenced Thomson's as well, something apparent when Constable's Stoke-by-Nayland (c. 1810–11) is compared with Thomson's Poplars by a Lake. Thomson's earlier...

parable involving two brothers who share a gem. Thomson's lamp is a supertask in which a hypothetical lamp is turned on and off infinitely many times in...

the usual time, and, in 1690, an order was issued to hang out a light, or lamp, every night at nightfall, from Michaelmas to Christmas. By an Act of the...

Massachusetts. In 1889, Thomson-Houston bought out the Brush Company (founded by Charles Brush) which resolved the arc lamp and dynamo patent disputes...

but were more efficient. Often, electrical utilities would trade new lamps for consumers' burned-out bulbs.[citation needed] In at least one case,...

threaded metal bases (caps) which screw into matching threaded sockets (lamp holders). For bulbs powered by AC current, the thread is generally connected...

Spotlighting or lamping (also known as jacklighting, shining, illuminating, pit-lamping, and the killing lamp) is a method of hunting nocturnal animals...

interests in many electricity-related companies, including Edison Lamp Company, a lamp manufacturer in East Newark, New Jersey; Edison Machine Works, a...

Lamp is a television and cinema advertisement released in September 2002 to promote the IKEA chain of furniture stores in the United States. The 60-second...

other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots...

of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s: arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale...

Championship, 3D Firebird Software Ace Software (Alan P. Cresswell) 1988 Black Lamp Firebird Software Software Creations (Mike Follin, Andrew R. Threlfall, Tim...

Canadian inventor and a major pioneer in the development of the incandescent lamp. He was born in 1832. On July 24, 1874, Woodward and his partner, Mathew...

Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates. The United States of America: Thomson: Brooks/Cole. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-03-022369-3. Araujo, Mario; Silva, Sergio;...

Though not understood at the time by Thomson, this was the first discovery of isotopes of stable atoms. Thomson's device was a crude version of the instrument...

deuterium lamp becomes very weak. The use of deuterium HCL is preferable compared to an arc lamp due to the better fit of the image of the former lamp with...