RE: Thinking about infinity
May 3, 2016 at 2:21 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2016 at 2:24 am by robvalue.)
Maybe our reality is infinite, in one respect or another. It's logically consistent. Infinite time, infinite length... whatever. Or infinite in some other way we haven't even comprehended yet.
Maybe things can be theoretically split into infinitely many pieces.
Excluding extremes like this is not generally what science is about. All we can do is observe, test and model. We can't make sweeping statements that apply to all of reality and beyond, just because we say so, based on our current best models of the areas available for testing.
If someone claims infinities are impossible, the burden of proof is on them to back this up. And I'd say that is an impossible task, at least currently. "Don't make no sense" isn't adequate.
Maybe things can be theoretically split into infinitely many pieces.
Excluding extremes like this is not generally what science is about. All we can do is observe, test and model. We can't make sweeping statements that apply to all of reality and beyond, just because we say so, based on our current best models of the areas available for testing.
If someone claims infinities are impossible, the burden of proof is on them to back this up. And I'd say that is an impossible task, at least currently. "Don't make no sense" isn't adequate.
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