Posted on 02/20/2015 6:01:20 PM PST by LibWhacker
Our challenge as physicists is to discover this elegant way and the infinity-free equations describing it—the true laws of physics. To start this search in earnest, we need to question infinity. I’m betting that we also need to let go of it.
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Maybe infinity is like the imaginary number and they should get rid of that, too.
Playing with infinities is all fun and games...until someone loses their mind.
I think the amount of derivatives may be infinite.
Most physicists don’t believe that infinity exists. There are some quantities which are very large and others that are extreme;y small but infinities only arise in mathematical abstraction and description of the physical world, but not in the real world.
infinity / infinity = unity. —
But anything divided by 0 = infinity, so
infinity = anything/0, and substituting in:
(exercise left to student) ...
anything / anything = 1
it will be reduced to potty talk —
Of course:
Poop / 0 = infinity.
Clever quip bob...
I’m sorry, It’s been a pretty trying day.
Actually, my formula did describe the situation.
I understand. In a society run by poop brained mentally ill lunatics, it’s difficult to have a good day.
But that was way more work than it was worth, don't you think? I do, and I'm outta here.
poop brained mentally ill lunatics / their IQ,
Well, the sky’s the limit.
Yes they did, but I didn't. BTW, you might believe it's contradictory, but what you believe and what the actual reality is likely conflict.
I'm outta here.
Cheers...
When I was five years old, an older Lady who lived upstairs from us was babysitting me.
We ware sitting on the Stoop (front porch) the enjoying the evening and looking up at the Stars in the Sky. I turned to the poor Lady and asked, where does Space end?
She looked at me like I was a Community Organizer from Chicago and I don’t think she really answered my question.
When my Parents got home, she told my Mother that I was an “interesting” Child. LOL
Once upon a time, somebody heard the expression "begs the question" and started using it without bothering to find out what it means.
Even worse, although it has appeared on many lists of "commonly misused expressions," there still exist so-called writers who keep misusing it. They should, of course, be lined up against a wall and...
If something can be “twice as small” or “one-thousand times as small”—and “journalists” tell us these things all the time—why can’t something be “infinitely small”?
God is infinite! (That is, too big to care if I sleep with the babysitter.)
The atheist's creed.
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The most accurate summation of the Atheist religion I've ever read. Brilliant.
Or, “ten times quieter” or “three times less filling” or...
She was speechless. That was probably a, "WTF are you talking about, where's my lunch" look she was emitting. You misread it...maybe not....lol
Oh, I did not intend to say that “Infinitely small” is not plausible. All I said was that he left out “Finitely small”. ;-)
“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.” Sir Arthur Eddington
English astronomer (1882 - 1944)
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