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Infinity Is a Beautiful Concept – And It’s Ruining Physics
Discover Magazine ^
| 2/20/15
| Max Tegmark
Posted on 02/20/2015 6:01:20 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Physicist don’t have a clue here.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:02:28 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:02:43 PM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: LibWhacker
Infinity wrecks hell too.
To: LibWhacker
Infinity cannot be bound by Time and it cannot be bound by Space.
Something that transcends, or is outside Time and Space ... hmmmmmmmm ... wherever could this take us?
And can Science help us to understand something outside Time and Space? Nope.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:05:34 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
To: dragnet2
Physicist dont have a clue here. Sounds like this right here:
that time can continue forever
is either a semantical faux pas or rank contradiction.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:05:59 PM PST
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: LibWhacker
“infinitely small.
I think he forgot, “Finitely small”. ;-)
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:08:10 PM PST
by
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
(Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
To: 9thLife
I never suggested that regarding time, my comment was physicist have no clue here.
What we do understand about the universe/infinity etc, has stood physics on it’s head.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:09:41 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: LibWhacker
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.
To: LibWhacker
infinity / infinity = unity.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:12:36 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: LibWhacker
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.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:12:57 PM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: dragnet2
Physicists claim to be in search of the truth, but they are really only in search of equations that predict future measurements.
They are the ultimate pragmatists, but are unwilling to fess up to this.
To do so would lower their status to that of mere engineers.
To: LibWhacker
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.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:14:27 PM PST
by
norwaypinesavage
(The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
To: central_va
{No. of Real Numbers}/{No. of Rational Numbers} does not equal 1
To: 9thLife
God is the only true infinity. Every other theory of infinity is only human arrogance speaking.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:14:51 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
To: House Atreides
If I cant understand it and it confuses me, it doesnt exist. The atheist's creed.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:15:10 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
To: LibWhacker
...we have no direct observational evidence for either the infinitely big...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.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:15:24 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: LibWhacker
Any true beauty in the universe is proof of Gd. And infinity is too beautiful a concept to give up.
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posted on
02/20/2015 6:16:02 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: norwaypinesavage
"That doesnt mean either is wrong, they just are not exactly right. Mathematicians and scientists get jobs, awards, and honors when they come up with theories that are closer approximations to what we hope is "exactly right".
To: Ciexyz
"Every other theory of infinity is only human arrogance speaking." Whether or not Cantor was arrogant, when he came up with his theories regarding infinity it was not just arrogance speaking. There was a heckuva lot of math and logic as well.
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