ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Lebesgue spine

Okay kiddo, so imagine you have a really big candy bar, but it's not just one solid block - it's made up of little tiny bits, like chocolate chips.

Now the "Lebesgue spine" is kind of like that candy bar, because it's made up of little tiny pieces, but in this case they're not chocolate chips, they're numbers.

When we talk about the "Lebesgue spine," what we really mean is a way of measuring lots of different sets of numbers, but making sure that we don't count any of them twice. It's like if you were trying to count your toy cars, you wouldn't want to count the same one twice by accident.

So the Lebesgue spine helps us be really careful when we're measuring sets of numbers, to make sure we don't miss anything important. Does that make sense, kiddo?