Re: There is no way to cross the bridge to infinity

On 02/22/2020 06:45 PM, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:04:26 PM UTC-8, djoyce099 wrote:

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 9:46:29 PM UTC-5, Mitch Raemsch wrote:

The mathematician's would count without end...
and God would not need to.

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Why is this subject of infinity so difficult to comprehend where --->00
means infinity whether it is large or small can never be attained but
only approached. An unreachable concept whether it be in math or
physical
distance large or small.
Just my take as a layman.
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Dan

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Maybe a point of David Hilbert's calling Cantor's
trans-finite cardinals a paradise is that the
uncountable gave the "relatively infinite" to
the unbounded, thus that from the unbounded and
uncountability there's a simple proof of the infinite.
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Of course many have there are as direct results
about infinity as simply defining an arbitrarily
large constant and relating rates in the bounded.
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