Well, the game is over and the USA defeated the Russkis in a shoot out. But that's not the important question. Although I enjoyed the game and, of course, the result, there was another interesting happening:
During the intermission, the Russians brought in the Zamboni....Not only one Zamboni, but two, count 'em TWO Zambonis.
Christin makes one of her patented cool remarks:
"This cuts the cleaning time in half."
"Yes", I said, "it does and had they brought in 4 Zambonis, it would have further cut the time and then, imagine if they had brought 8 Zambonis, the cleaning time would have been cut by another half of the half of the half... until they brought in an infinite number of Zambonis"
Christin broke in: "Then the cleaning would have lasted Zero time."
And then the ancient Greek "Zeno" awoke in me: Remember he's the one who proved that Achilles could never catch up with a turtle, if the turtle were given a small advantage at the start... he is also the one who, with his infallible logic, proved that an arrow will never reach the target, that in fact it probably does not even fly and everything we see is but an illusion.
So it follows, that if the cleaning of the ice surface, on which the USA just won a hockey game, given that it would have taken Zero time, did not happen at all. And if that took Zero time then we have to seriously doubt if the hockey game actually took place, because the hockey puck ever having crossed the goal line is impossible and therefore did not happen, ( see Zeno's arrow) and when the referee blows his whistle and points to the centre Face -Off point, because in his limited experience a goal had just been scored, he is simply wrong, wrong, wrong.
In fact, there was no hockey game and all of the Olympics is but an illusion.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum! says the Old Latin Scholar
Bertstravels.
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