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This sentence seems crucial:

    It can be proven using the axiom of choice, which allows for the construction of non-measurable sets, i.e., collections of points that do not have a volume in the ordinary sense, and whose construction requires an uncountable number of choices.
So you chop up a sphere (which has a volume V1) into a finite number of collections of points (which don't have a volume), then assemble the collections of points into a new sphere (which has a volume V2 != V1).

You chop up a sphere of volume V1 into non-measurable pieces, and then re-assemble those pieces into 2 spheres, each of volume V1.

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