“A number is how far along you are on your journey, infinity is the horizon you journey towards.” - Some guy I met in a pub
Infinity is a concept that we made up for the purpose of explaining some math. Prove me wrong.
Infinity. Checkmate.
Infinity plus 1.
Which theory is the most plausible?
There is currently no way to observe any of this empirically, so the question is pretty much moot. It’s speculation either way.
Explain?
Might be this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Infinite
Or this is about some people thinking infinity is just a really big number, with which you can do calculations like e.g. (these are non-sensical!):
- ∞ - ∞ = 0
- 2*∞ > ∞
these are non-sensical
Transfinite algebra is a widely-accepted aspect of mathematics.
↑Statements dreamed up by the totally Deranged
Bonkers
I mean, the Casimir effect was initially derived as the result of two infinite values having a finite difference.
There are different kinds of infinity
“Countably infinite” means an infinitely-large set of numbers that could be generated by infinitely following an algorithm with a finite number of steps. For example, natural (positive whole) numbers are countably infinite because they could be generated by following this simple algorithm:
- Start with the number 1
- Add 1 to your number
- Repeat step 2
The set of real numbers, on the other hand, is uncountably infinite because you can have an infinite number of digits after the decimal place. You can’t define a finite generation algorithm like the one above simply because any precision you use wouldn’t cover the full range. In other words, if you wanted to modify the above algorithm, and chose 0.1 as your starting number, your algorithm would miss 0.01. If you chose to start at 0.01, you would miss 0.001, and so on
I misread that as “absolute immunity” and thought you had posted to the wrong community.
The meme works just as well, “absolute immunity” is just more topical and political than mathematical
