How many angels can fit into a pinhead?

Answer 1

The traditional question is how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. I like the image of them dancing rather than just standing around, wings folded up tight, jammed in with a bunch of other angels, probably getting feathers bent.

I was a philosophy major in college in the 1970s, and one of my professors talked about this, because his topic was Philosophy of Religion, and he said his students asked him this at least once a semester.

We then discussed the fact that it was a classic case of trying to reason about something from completely inadequate premises. We know nothing about the existence or nature of angels, really, and whether or not they are able to shrink down to a tiny size, or whether they have anything corresponding to physical bodies at all, etc. As long as there is no data, it is an exercise in imagination, not in reasoning.

That was a good answer, I thought, except that it would also seem to fit almost all questions about religion: imagination, not reasoning.

Answer 2

Hang on a mo, I'll go ask Zippy.

Damn - he's busy stuffing another angel into his brain. I think he's up to infinity minus 1.

Man, what a party!

(Actually, the answer has to do with the circumference of a tachyion. Unfortunately, I've lost my protractor)

Answer 3

Depends on the size of their wings.

Answer 4

seventy seven in Hebrew meaning.