(January 27, 2015 at 2:32 pm)StuW Wrote:(January 27, 2015 at 12:38 pm)robvalue Wrote: There are even different sizes of infinities. There are countable, such as the integers, and uncountable infinities like the real numbers. Uncountable ones are "bigger".
It's used all the time as a concept in mathematics. And it works. It doesn't mean we have to go count out infinite stones for our abacus.
I seem to remember the terms Aleph-null, Aleph-1, ad nauseum? Think it was in a book called White Light by Rudy Rucker?
Yes, aleph-null (or aleph-nought), aleph-one, aleph-two, ad infinitum.
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Science is not a subject, but a method.