Physicist don’t have a clue here.
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Infinity wrecks hell too.
And can Science help us to understand something outside Time and Space? Nope.
““infinitely small.”
I think he forgot, “Finitely small”. ;-)
How brilliant -— If I can’t understand it and it confuses me, it doesn’t exist.
That can be used to “solve” all sorts of problems...just make them go away.
infinity / infinity = unity.
A word used often without understanding the consequences of believing it.
Like saying God is infinite but then saying He doesn’t care about some (to us) ‘minor’ detail.
Things such as infinity, singularities, or discontinuities, are mathematical concepts. Mathematics allows two dimensional worlds, or 8 dimensional worlds, and many other things that are not possible in a physical world. Physicists often use mathematics to describe the physical world, but the match is not always exact. So what? That doesn’t mean either is wrong, they just are not exactly right.
wait a second right there! What about EBT cards, welfare, EITC, social security...any government program! they go on for all time and continuously expand toward infinity.
Any true beauty in the universe is proof of Gd. And infinity is too beautiful a concept to give up.
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Cry if I Wanna: I think I think, therefore I think I am.
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At some point the numbers exceed the size and particles in the universe, and are confined to theoretical discussions with pencil and paper...
I think the problem here is the use of a property not founded (that is not located anywhere) in nature. When talking about scientific inquiry, the study of the elements is always dealing in finite realities since the material world is by definition finite.
And so the question arises, why would science make use of a property which never occurs or appears in the natural world? Not even does it seemingly appear in mathematics as an actual number, since no one can count to an infinity.
However, the concept infinity is somehow graspable to the human mind, but in fact, taken for granted as an existing property of measurable reality. By definition, as an unbounded reality, infinity should not be measured with. But is that really done in science? I’m not qualified to even know if I’m asking the right question there.
Its a curious question, leading to many more unknown questions. I do believe that Human minds grasp metaphysical realities beyond physics however.
A spork has purpose along the way. You must decide! YOU MUST DECIDE!!!
Our challenge as physicists is to discover this elegant way and the infinity-free equations describing it—the true laws of physics. To start this search in earnest, we need to question infinity. I’m betting that we also need to let go of it.
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Maybe infinity is like the imaginary number and they should get rid of that, too.
Most physicists don’t believe that infinity exists. There are some quantities which are very large and others that are extreme;y small but infinities only arise in mathematical abstraction and description of the physical world, but not in the real world.