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Comic in 5 panels
Panel 1: a guinea pig stands in front of a barber shop sign that reads “1/2 off Haircuts”
Guinea Pig: Oh, wow!
Panel 2: the guinea pig leaves the barber shop and sees his reflection in the window. He’s noticeable shorn evenly on only half his body from nose to tail.
Guinea Pig: Hey!
Panel 3: the guinea pig turns around and reenters the barber shop.
Panel 4: the guinea pig leaving the barber shop again spies his reflection in the window and sees a quarter of his body still has hair on it
Guinea Pig: What!
Panel 4: the Guinea pig re-enters the barber shop.
Guinea Pig: This is going to take FOREVER.
You would eventually get down to the last hair, and then have a 50% chance to remove it with each subsequent haircut. This is his how homeopathic solutions can end up with literally no “active ingredient”, or only a small chance of containing a single molecule of it.
No, they’d just keep cutting the hair in half
Eventually you’d get down to one hair cell, if that is cut in half it is no longer hair.
You wouldn’t split an atom!
The barber will cut the last hair in half