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condor 
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 Topic: How do you envisage infinity?
Posted: September 14 2015 at 08:49 |
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I was just wondering
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Not. I have tried to for fourteen years, from age 10 to age 24. Then I concluded that I couldn't because I am limited, and I had peace with it.
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A Person
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Posted: September 14 2015 at 09:06 |
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I don't because I can't
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Posted: September 14 2015 at 11:22 |
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emigre80
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Posted: September 14 2015 at 11:52 |
Trying to envision infinity makes my head hurt, so I imagine the universe as a sphere, with a definite boundary and signs saying "stop here" at the edges. If I'm feeling whimsical, I change the signs to "here be dragons."
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Padraic
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Posted: September 14 2015 at 11:58 |
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∞
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Posted: September 14 2015 at 12:06 |
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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JD
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Posted: September 14 2015 at 17:14 |
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There's no such thing. It's a human construct due to our limited intellect. I'll have this opinion forever...and a day !
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HackettFan
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Posted: September 14 2015 at 18:22 |
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We are all sinking toward an infinitesimally small singularity, but because cause and effect is reversed, we experience it as infinite expansion.
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zappaholic
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Posted: September 14 2015 at 19:16 |
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"Infinity is a notion best contemplated inside four walls with sheets tucked snugly around one's toes."
~ Oliver Wendell Jones, Bloom County
/couldn't find the original comic online
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Posted: September 14 2015 at 21:53 |
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Something will always exist somewhere. That's infinity.
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Man With Hat
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Posted: September 15 2015 at 16:23 |
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Head cheese.
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Smurph
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Posted: September 15 2015 at 17:09 |
I think about how many atoms are in the universe... 4 x 10^79...
and then I think about how if you divide that by infinity, the answer is 0.
So if we compare two lines, one infinity in distance and another going 4 x 10^79 light years... and think that 4 x 10^79 light years is basically equal to no distance at all in comparison.
The entirety of everything is basically nothing when that comparison is made.
If infinity exists, then nothing exists at all.
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emigre80
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Posted: September 15 2015 at 19:50 |
 Smurph wrote:
I think about how many atoms are in the universe...4 x 10^79... and then I think about how if you divide that by infinity, the answer is 0. So if we compare two lines, one infinity in distance and another going 4 x 10^79 light years... and think that 4 x 10^79 light years is basically equal to no distance at all in comparison. The entirety of everything is basically nothing when that comparison is made. If infinity exists, then nothing exists at all. |
Now my head really hurts.
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aglasshouse
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Posted: September 15 2015 at 20:13 |
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Something I shouldn't envisage. I have better things to do.
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JD
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Posted: September 15 2015 at 20:26 |
emigre80 wrote:
Smurph wrote:
I think about how many atoms are in the universe...4 x 10^79... and then I think about how if you divide that by infinity, the answer is 0. So if we compare two lines, one infinity in distance and another going 4 x 10^79 light years... and think that 4 x 10^79 light years is basically equal to no distance at all in comparison. The entirety of everything is basically nothing when that comparison is made. If infinity exists, then nothing exists at all. |
Now my head really hurts. |
I just tried to crunch the numbers and now my calculator is on fire ! Thanks man !
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: September 15 2015 at 21:13 |
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I'm pretty sure it's big, and I mean really big, like huge, no I mean really really huge.
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A Person
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Posted: September 15 2015 at 21:36 |
Smurph wrote:
I think about how many atoms are in the universe...4 x 10^79...
and then I think about how if you divide that by infinity, the answer is 0.
So if we compare two lines, one infinity in distance and another going 4 x 10^79 light years... and think that 4 x 10^79 light years is basically equal to no distance at all in comparison.
The entirety of everything is basically nothing when that comparison is made.
If infinity exists, then nothing exists at all. |
Well a 1 light year long line is just as infinitely small compared to infinity as a 4 x 10^79 ly long one.
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HackettFan
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Posted: September 17 2015 at 11:31 |
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I envisage calculus.
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