I think the Bible might be saying that 0=infinity: "I am the Alpha and the Omega" seems to equate the two.
Someone said zero is a valid number. Yes, that's true, but not in all contexts, specifically when dividing.
I'd argue that zero and infinity have a kind of inverse relationship. The problem is that when you reverse direction of multiplication/division, you can get really weird stuff:
1/0 = infinity, therefore infinity * 0 = 1;
2/0 = infinity, therefore infinity * 0 = 2;
Therefore 1=2, and all numbers are equal. Clearly, this is broken. However, if you're looking for a goofy philosophical quantity to replace God, then playing with zero and infinity is a pretty good way to "explain" how something comes out of nothing. maybe in the Big Bang singularity, there's no such thing as number-ness, and there is simply a philosophical principle like this one that is meaningless once things unravel into what we'd call reality.
Someone said zero is a valid number. Yes, that's true, but not in all contexts, specifically when dividing.
I'd argue that zero and infinity have a kind of inverse relationship. The problem is that when you reverse direction of multiplication/division, you can get really weird stuff:
1/0 = infinity, therefore infinity * 0 = 1;
2/0 = infinity, therefore infinity * 0 = 2;
Therefore 1=2, and all numbers are equal. Clearly, this is broken. However, if you're looking for a goofy philosophical quantity to replace God, then playing with zero and infinity is a pretty good way to "explain" how something comes out of nothing. maybe in the Big Bang singularity, there's no such thing as number-ness, and there is simply a philosophical principle like this one that is meaningless once things unravel into what we'd call reality.
