Oops! Newly Discovered Infinities Might Have Broken The Mathematical Universe..."This changes completely the landscape of large cardinals."

IFL Science ^ | December 19, 2024 | Dr. Katie Spalding

[Sicon]

Large cardinals?

[Sparticus]

You say “infinities” and I say “vanities.”

[Adder]

My cardinals are smaller and like black sunflower seeds.

[steve86]

You can’t get closer than the Planck distance, right? Convince me I’m wrong. Don’t actually attempt a closer approach or you might inadvertantly create a black hole.

[Stosh]

Can I buy some pot from these guys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOGxePBs50

[Fresh Wind]

LOL! You are absolutely right!

[Fresh Wind]

[Pythion.net]

"Reminds me of a similar example my high school science teacher used of standing a distance from the wall and then stepping half the distance toward the wall, and then half that distance, and so on and so on…., but never reaching the wall."

And that reminds me of this: A mathematician, a philosopher, and an engineer were having a drink together and the engineer asked "If you were standing 16 feet from a table that had a bottle of wine on it, and you were to walk halfway to the table, and then halfway again, and so on, how many times would you have to walk halfway before you reached the bottle of wine?
The mathematician said "You would never reach it because the distance to the table would always be non zero."
The philosopher said "In that case does the bottle of wine really exist or is it just a figment of your imagination?"
The engineer set a bottle of wine on a table and walked 16 feet from the table. He then walked 8 feet towards the table, then 4 feet, then two feet, then one foot, and reached out and picked up the bottle of wine and said "Four times."

[Bonemaker]

[rellic]

I was a math major at a university that prided itself on its Mathematics discipline.
Mathematics is a tool. Not always perfect, there is always error, but it will get the job done if you use it within it’s limits just as any tool.

[sausageseller]

Cardinal Gate at The Ohio State Fair.

Go Vols!

[Disambiguator]

Are any of the cardinals named Biggles or Fang?

[Billthedrill]

Nobody expects the large cardinals.

[Weirdad]

Memorize, learn to keep a straight face, tell it when you want to tease out who in a room has the math mind.

Those people (if any) will say “duh.” No telling what the others will do; but any who laugh (nervously) are probably afraid of you.

[exinnj]

Words, words and nothing but words…

[kosciusko51]

Diet of Worms?

[norwaypinesavage]

Those who wrote this have too much time on their hands.

[Disambiguator]

👍

[telescope115]

It reminds me of the attempting to reach the speed of light. Theoretically it’s impossible, isn’t it? If we could generate enough energy, we could go to 99.9% of the speed of, but never quite reach it. Or so they say.

[mistfree]

“There are infinite integers. There are also infinite rational numbers. But there are more rational numbers than integers. So the number of rational numbers is a greater infinity than the number of integers.”

It’s all semantics. Infinity is greater than infinity?
Ri....ght!