Addition, Aggregation and Explosion

Aggregation is violent.

If you have 2 Apples and you have 3 apples, and you light a cigarette lighter with a “+” on it between the two, there is a violent explosion and when the dust clears you have five apples.

If we repeat this experiment with two apples and three oranges, nothing happens.

One more scenario to consider:

2x + 3y

If left as is, nothing happens.

If we find out y=2x then there is a flash of light as 3y quickly changes to 3(2x) and then to 6x and then there is a BOOM! and we have 8x as the final answer.

For extra credit, one experimenter, who does sonething different, gets 4y. Can you explain what happened differently for that experimenter?

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