(February 24, 2018 at 5:27 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(February 24, 2018 at 5:13 pm)SteveII Wrote: LOL. Sure there are. BTW, you are failing to prove that actual infinities exist. You bring up some potential infinities candidates or that potential infinities are used in some equations--but that is not the same, is it.
And, so, if no one can prove that actual infinities exist, that makes their existence "impossible"??
Yes, because then we are left with things like:
1. The knowledge that you cannot get to an actual infinity by successive addition,
2. You cannot have an infinite series of events in the past because we could never count down from 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...Now because there would still have to be an infinite amounts of events that still need to happen, and
3. Thought experiments like Hilbert's Hotel which give you a series of absurdities when dealing with actual infinities.
With nothing on the other side to even balance out the question (let alone be convincing), it would seem that even with these 3 reasons, we find an actual infinite of a real object to be metaphysically impossible.