Infinity proves there is a God.
Can you give me an example of a thing that exists in an infinite amount?
Infinity proves there is a God.
This might not really be on-topic, at least, with the current trend of posts, but here are my musings on mathematics for what it's worth:
First, numbers are bullshit. They don't exist. I am sitting here, in my room, looking at my ceiling fan. I notice it has five blades. But wait, my fan is one object, the blades are five, coming to form one. In a sense, 5 = 1. But what equals the five? Tiny bits of metal, plastic...chemical structures I can't see, et cetera. 1 = 5 = ? = millions. It's all about frame of reference, kind of like what's been mentioned before. .9 = 1, depending on the viewing angle, but even having a viewing angle is kind of bullshit, because there's nothing that can distinguish one thing from another beyond abstract barriers that we make as individuals.
Yes i agree with your perception and anyone trying to break it down using math clearly doesn't understand the concept. (lol)
One thing that's bothered me is the concept of fractions. Suppose I have one loaf of bread and I were to cut it in halves and I gave you one half. We might represent this as you having 1/2 of a loaf of bread, but isn't that incorrect on some macroeconomic scale? In actuality you possess x particles, which combined represents some bread. There can only really be whole numbers right? I think part of the problem we run into with mathematics, even in higher levels, is that there's no real lowest-common-denominator, so to speak.
there is no lowest-common-denominator because the foundation of matter has never been found. You might run out of bread molecules to make fractions out of but there will always be infinitly more particles and sub-particles, and sub-sub-particles ad-infinitum... because it is a pattern and for that pattern to not exist would break the physics of the pattern. The pattern is infinity and science has always been trying to find the "god particle" or foundation of matter, but always go deeper. Negative magnification goes off until infinity... unless there was some sort of reflection going on... but either way it is a clear fractal.
While this is a bit scattered, I apologize, I have often thought about the problem of trying to exit a room by closing half the distance between yourself and the exit. I always thought it was a ludicrous problem--people don't move not-finitely whereas in this example, they do. But that's the problem with this thought experiment, it's just infinite division on a theoretical level, but in actuality, there must be some finite lowest common denominator or unit of measurement. I think the current way we look at numbers can be comparable to the difference in calculation between pints, quarts, and gallons. We dub the number 1 to be the smallest number, but it seems we tend to be talking about gallons, when there's actually 4 quarts or 8 pints. Without some bonafide smallest unit of measurement, it's kind of meaningless to talk about numbers, no?
The pattern of infinity is clear
Can the smallest unit of measurement ever be discovered? Something that cannot be divided or made any smaller? If so, how would it effect the mathematical world?
Infinity proves there is a God.
In math, no such number can be "discovered". You don't discover anything in math, every you can find must of automatically followed from the rules set out in the first place. In terms of math, we know that as long as you accept rational numbers, you can always divide a number. This is a concept that clearly plays itself out in your head. How could you find a number that's an exception?Blank said:Can the smallest unit of measurement ever be discovered? Something that cannot be divided or made any smaller? If so, how would it effect the mathematical world?
( hense the effects of perception on the electron during a double slit experiment)
I was speaking more philosophically. Upon further reflection, perhaps infinity is expressed mathematically as something that continues to change. 9..but it never stops expanding 9's. In one sense infinity is treated as though it's finite, and in another, it's not.
Is infinite smallness ever-shrinking, or is there a point in which it becomes nothingness?
Can you give me an example of a thing that exists in an infinite amount?