(February 14, 2018 at 12:00 pm)SteveII Wrote:(February 14, 2018 at 11:46 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Steve, I don’t think anyone is asserting they know that space-time is infinite; only that it’s not a logical contradiction, which has been clearly demonstrated. And, while I’m not a physicist or a mathematician, the concept of a completed infinity in mathematics is easily accessible to anyone with a smartphone and/or access to the internet. I’m not sure what you’re still objecting to.
What I am objecting to is not the concept of infinity. I'm fine with that. What I am objecting to is NO ONE believes it applies to the real world, real objects, real series of events--because successive addition will never get you to it. A simple article would prove me wrong.
Even if you think it should (like Sean Carroll), there is no theory how to defeat the logic. You must accept it without explanation (brute fact). But that is not what Grand/Poly are suggesting. They think they are smarter than Sean Carroll and think it a settled question with the answer -- of course it works--no problem.
You're NOT paying attention!
polymath is arguing similar to Sean Carroll, in that he's not sure if space/time is infinite or not, but the bet is that it is.
And I make no claim that what I hold to is scientific in its entirety. My personal view is logical but not necessarily completely supported by scientific evidence, though it also doesn't contradict it either. So it's absurd that you want us to post a scientific theory that says this is what is the case, when no one said anything about a scientific theory.
