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Can we Grasp Infinity?
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technomage
Finding my own way
Dunno about you, but I can't. Oh, sure, I can blather on with abstract terms and dictionary definitions, but to actually understand infinity? Nope.
I'd love to put it that way, but we both know thats not complete.
Zero.
Human stupidity.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
How about status quo? Changes yet it doesn't. ;0)
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
I've been hooked on the concept of Multidimensional reality for a good long time now and in short that concept implies an infinite number of dimensions that are infinite in their own right. (Do not confuse this rendering of Multidimensional reality with the popular physics concept of the Multiverse. Similar, but I wouldn't want to imply that is what I am talking about, as I'm not a physicist and I wouldn't want to muddy their wonderful idea.)
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
What's wrong with the concept of infinity?
All I essentially wanted to get at was some sense of grasping of the concept not delving beneath the surface of complex theorems.
Yes, we can grasp infinity. When we think about infinity we are summing together many things. It is reasonable to think about infinity, too. In math there are example of infinitely long lists of numbers which sum to a single number. For example there are infinitely long sequences of decimal numbers which add to one, to pi, and to the exponential constant e. This is no different from thinking about other infinite sums of things, like infinite distances or infinite numbers of stars. Nobody knows how many there are, but we can grasp the concept of 'All of the stars'.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
If your looking at an uncomplicated way of grasping infinity, I kept a ruler and started dividing by multiples of 2 to see if a singularity can be achieved mathematically.