Re: 2N=E

On 02.11.2024 10:29, FromTheRafters wrote:

WM expressed precisely :

On 01.11.2024 23:01, FromTheRafters wrote:

WM was thinking very hard :

On 01.11.2024 19:43, FromTheRafters wrote:

WM presented the following explanation :

On 01.11.2024 15:02, Jim Burns wrote:
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'Infinity' does not mean what you want it to mean.

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Infinity can have two meanings.

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More than that, but in this context it simply means not finite.

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Is the elapsing time infinite?

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Starting when?

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Irrelevant. Now or at the big bang.

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Is the number of real points in the interval (0, 1) infinite?

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Uncountably so.
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Can you find the difference?

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There is no difference up to isomorphism. If time is considered infinitely divisible

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Time is defined by its smallest unit, for instance a second.

 In that case, time is only countably infinite.

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No. It "is not (like every individual transfinite and in general everything due to an 'idea divina') determined in itself, fixed, and unchangeable, but a finite in the process of change, having in each of its actual states a finite size; like, for instance, the time elapsed after the beginning of the world, which, measured in some time-unit, for instance a year, is finite in every moment, but always growing beyond all finite limits, without ever becoming really infinitely large." [G. Cantor, letter to I. Jeiler (13 Oct 1895)]