26 Apr
2006
26 Apr
'06
10:27 a.m.
A question struck me in the shower this morning: Suppose you would like a piece of soap which dissolves at a uniform rate. I.e., as it gets smaller, the soap bar's surface area remains constant until it vanishes. I have convinced myself that one should be able to construct such a bar of soap with arbitrarily small holes. As the soap gets smaller, the holes are exposed to increase the surface area. Need it have holes?