Infinity Is a Beautiful Concept – And It’s Ruining Physics

Discover Magazine ^ | 2/20/15 | Max Tegmark

[dragnet2]

Physicist don’t have a clue here.

[left that other site]

Of interest Ping

[right way right]

Infinity wrecks hell too.

[ClearCase_guy]

Infinity cannot be bound by Time and it cannot be bound by Space.
Something that transcends, or is outside Time and Space ... hmmmmmmmm ... wherever could this take us?

And can Science help us to understand something outside Time and Space? Nope.

[9thLife]

Physicist don’t have a clue here.

Sounds like this right here:

that time can continue forever

is either a semantical faux pas or rank contradiction.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

““infinitely small.”

I think he forgot, “Finitely small”. ;-)

[dragnet2]

I never suggested that regarding time, my comment was physicist have no clue here.

What we do understand about the universe/infinity etc, has stood physics on it’s head.

[House Atreides]

How brilliant -— If I can’t understand it and it confuses me, it doesn’t exist.

That can be used to “solve” all sorts of problems...just make them go away.

[central_va]

infinity / infinity = unity.

[jjotto]

A word used often without understanding the consequences of believing it.

Like saying God is infinite but then saying He doesn’t care about some (to us) ‘minor’ detail.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Physicists claim to be in search of the truth, but they are really only in search of equations that predict future measurements.

They are the ultimate pragmatists, but are unwilling to fess up to this.

To do so would lower their status to that of mere engineers.

[norwaypinesavage]

Things such as infinity, singularities, or discontinuities, are mathematical concepts. Mathematics allows two dimensional worlds, or 8 dimensional worlds, and many other things that are not possible in a physical world. Physicists often use mathematics to describe the physical world, but the match is not always exact. So what? That doesn’t mean either is wrong, they just are not exactly right.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

{No. of Real Numbers}/{No. of Rational Numbers} does not equal 1

[Ciexyz]

God is the only true infinity. Every other theory of infinity is only human arrogance speaking.

[ClearCase_guy]

If I can’t understand it and it confuses me, it doesn’t exist.

The atheist's creed.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...we have no direct observational evidence for either the infinitely big...

wait a second right there! What about EBT cards, welfare, EITC, social security...any government program! they go on for all time and continuously expand toward infinity.

[Yaelle]

Any true beauty in the universe is proof of Gd. And infinity is too beautiful a concept to give up.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"That doesn’t mean either is wrong, they just are not exactly right.

Mathematicians and scientists get jobs, awards, and honors when they come up with theories that are closer approximations to what we hope is "exactly right".

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"Every other theory of infinity is only human arrogance speaking."

Whether or not Cantor was arrogant, when he came up with his theories regarding infinity it was not just arrogance speaking. There was a heckuva lot of math and logic as well.