Does "infinity" exist?

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inifnite is man trying to make sense of shyt he cant imo. are there infinite numbers, sure in theory. do you need all those numbers? not in reality. there might be infinite feet from here to the end of space but is that billion digit numbers a real measure of anything? u can take a billion numbers and measure from ya head to your toe too. its just like a tool to help understand mathematics fluctuating realities within each person. does it exist, its not something that EXISTS per say, but it is a real concept sure
 

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lets talk about various infinities:

if there's an infinite amount of numbers, and an infinite amount of odd numbers, is the amount of numbers equal to the amount of odd numbers?

they will be like two cars racing forever and one of them will always have the lead...I think :mindblown:
 

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IMO

The concept of inifinty and randomness are built on the same principle, that time actually matters. Like it or not, we invented the concept of time. We invented the second, the minute, the hour, the day, the week, month and year. None of that shyt actually matter outside of earth. Consider this, there's space mutants already doing there thing and our seconds are their hours. They move at hyper speeds because their mass is inheritently different...

Point im trying to get at is that we expect all our earth concepts to be univseral when they arent. Sure we have an idea of some of the laws such as a possible speed limit to light and overall gravitational attraction, but to think of all the billion of trillions of billions of planets are following our same rulles? :wtf:

Back to the topic tho, infinity needs a divisor.. a common measurent. You cant just say something is inifinite distance, what if inifinite distance is the measure itself? What the fukk is a mile anyways? Random dives into probability, things dont get more random they just get less probable. Anything can and will happen if you give it enough... TIME! Which is our own measurement. So take away the human concept and you have anything can and will happen. Theres nothing random about that.

These concepts are only relavent from the human perspective. If anything, we need to consider the closest thing to randomness in this universe, which is the intangible consciousness. We are able to concieve thoughts that we cant explain such as infinite and random and time. We made these terms up after analyzing the world around us with our limited sensors (sight, sound, feel, etc). Just as dude posted earlier, it took us long enough to figure out properties of things we couldnt sense, why limit our understanding based on a already proven flawed system of sensing reality.

As for what i believe? Well people believed the world existed on a two dimensional plane for the longest just to find out it was a sphere. We think this univese is some sort of infinite 3 dimensional space, who's to say it doesnt extened into a higher dimension? Certainly we'll never know in our short lifespans.
 

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Infinity doesn't exist because it never ends. You can't show an infinite number. You can't show an infinite distance. The concept, or the thought of infinity is what exists...not the actual thing.

Sort of like unicorns. Just a thing conjured by the mind that can't meet reality.
 

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Infinity doesn't exist because it never ends. You can't show an infinite number. You can't show an infinite distance. The concept, or the thought of infinity is what exists...not the actual thing.

Sort of like unicorns. Just a thing conjured by the mind that can't meet reality.

numbers in general are just an abstract concept that only exists in our minds
 
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Infinity doesn't exist because it never ends. You can't show an infinite number. You can't show an infinite distance. The concept, or the thought of infinity is what exists...not the actual thing.

Sort of like unicorns. Just a thing conjured by the mind that can't meet reality.

So you're saying PI doesn't exist because its exact value can't be computed? But it and other infinite numbers are used to come up with material things.
 

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numbers in general are just an abstract concept that only exists in our minds

OK you said abstract which means only exists in our mind with no physical evidence. Wouldn't the very quantity count as physical evidence?

Two apples. Physical evidence.
 

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So you're saying PI doesn't exist because its exact value can't be computed? But it and other infinite numbers are used to come up with material things.

Pi is an infinite number :yes:

I'm not familiar with engineering.
 

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OK you said abstract which means only exists in our mind with no physical evidence. Wouldn't the very quantity count as physical evidence?

Two apples. Physical evidence.

you have an apple, and another apple. "two" is just the concept that describes that. it doesn't exist on it's own
 
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Pi is an infinite number :yes:

I'm not familiar with engineering.

Pi is used for anything having to do with curves. We wouldn't be able to determine the area or circumference of a circle without it. So how can it not exist?

Matter of fact, not only is Pi an infinite number, its digits appear to be random as well.
 

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Infinity doesn't exist because it never ends.

so reality is defined by our own perceptions :ufdup:

and things don't exist that don't end, or can't be measured :dwillhuh:

not logical, imo. how would you explain scientific advances that humans previously didn't have..such as the alleged discovery of the higgs-boson :ufdup: we didn't have the tech to measure it before, so under your logic, it didn't exist, and never did. so what did they find then :dwillhuh:

people talking about abstract this, and abstract that, sure, i understand that. but in reality, those numbers are more real than any of us, if you relate reality to existence.
 

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lets talk about various infinities:

if there's an infinite amount of numbers, and an infinite amount of odd numbers, is the amount of numbers equal to the amount of odd numbers?
:mindblown:

where is type username here, although I think it could just be semantics since an infinity is always infinity, one infinity can't be less than another infinity
 
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