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Actual infinities.
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RE: Actual infinities.
(October 4, 2017 at 6:51 am)Jehanne Wrote:
(October 4, 2017 at 6:11 am)Little lunch Wrote: Anyone feel like giving me a dumbed down summary? :-)

Basically, actual infinities exist all around us, within us and we are constantly in their midst wherever (and whenever) we do anything.  Just as Cantor proved that there are an infinite number of numbers between any 2 points on the real number line, so, too, space and time have an infinite number of points between any 2 points in space or time, and so, moving from one point to another means traversing an actual infinite of points.  If this is not the case, then Nature, at some level, is discrete, which means that the Universe could be without a beginning and yet, the number of past events would still be finite or simply a "potential infinite".

In any case, the argument against "actual infinities" is not an argument helpful to theism.

Correct me if I am wrong.

But to me I see "all this" including the concepts of multiverse and bubble verse as being one gigantic wave function that will eventually burn out back to zero and lead to another twitch leading to a new wave.

So to me "all this" is really a infinite fluctuation having a finite off, and a finite on. Just like a light switch goes from off to on. 

I will say this, none of science even at the quantum level needs a sky hero super cognition as a gap answer regardless.

I think it as as simply ultimately the same as knowing you can have 1 finite line that has an infinite number of points between.

But while science still has yet to figure out something or nothing before, it still remains that the god of the gaps answer is bullshit, it is a mere projection of humans.
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Messages In This Thread
Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 4, 2017 at 4:19 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by I_am_not_mafia - October 4, 2017 at 4:57 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Little lunch - October 4, 2017 at 6:11 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 4, 2017 at 6:51 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Brian37 - October 16, 2017 at 7:46 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by I_am_not_mafia - October 4, 2017 at 7:29 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 4, 2017 at 9:02 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 4, 2017 at 11:45 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Aegon - October 16, 2017 at 9:12 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Ignorant - October 16, 2017 at 5:01 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Brian37 - October 16, 2017 at 9:39 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Ignorant - October 16, 2017 at 10:53 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 16, 2017 at 11:13 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Ignorant - October 16, 2017 at 2:49 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 16, 2017 at 2:53 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 16, 2017 at 3:04 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 16, 2017 at 3:10 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Ignorant - October 17, 2017 at 4:48 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 9:19 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Ignorant - October 17, 2017 at 10:39 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Brian37 - October 16, 2017 at 11:50 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Ignorant - October 16, 2017 at 2:54 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Mr.Obvious - October 16, 2017 at 7:08 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 16, 2017 at 9:05 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 16, 2017 at 9:53 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 17, 2017 at 11:16 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 12:15 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 17, 2017 at 12:40 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 12:47 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 17, 2017 at 12:58 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 1:10 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 17, 2017 at 1:24 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 1:36 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 17, 2017 at 1:52 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 2:03 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 17, 2017 at 2:20 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 2:34 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 17, 2017 at 3:06 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 3:18 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 17, 2017 at 3:33 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 3:43 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by RoadRunner79 - October 17, 2017 at 3:54 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Ignorant - October 17, 2017 at 3:56 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Jehanne - October 17, 2017 at 4:16 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Ignorant - October 17, 2017 at 3:07 pm
RE: Actual infinities. - by Succubus - October 18, 2017 at 12:38 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Little lunch - October 17, 2017 at 6:06 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by Little lunch - October 17, 2017 at 11:49 am
RE: Actual infinities. - by JackRussell - October 17, 2017 at 3:36 pm

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