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If it can't be represented in the physical world does it really exist? [eg]
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My post in emanuela's aformentioned thread:
"Infinity" was once *disproved to me by this explaination:
Take your thumb and your forefinger and spread them apart as far as possible. This represents a distance. Now make that distance one half as large. Continue to cut the distance between them in half.
Theoretically, your thumb and forefinger will never actually® touch each other.
Does my thumb and forefinger ever touch as I understand touch? Or is my perception not only not real but not representable by mathematics (as could be the only proof of touch *contextually)?
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Isn't the infinity of integers 2x that the infinity of only odd integers? If not, then why bother with proving infinity?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted infinity - not exactly a word post emanuela 02/02/03 04:49 PM Re: infinity - not exactly a word post musick 02/02/03 06:00 PM Re: infinity - not exactly a word post Faldage 02/02/03 10:56 PM Re: infinity - not exactly a word post Capfka 02/02/03 11:15 PM Re: infinity - not exactly a word post musick 02/03/03 09:22 AM Re: infinity - not exactly a word post milum 02/03/03 03:36 PM Re: infinity - not exactly a word post tsuwm 02/03/03 04:40 PM Re: infinity - not exactly a word post Buffalo Shrdlu 02/03/03 06:49 PM Re: infinity - not exactly a word post emanuela 02/03/03 06:19 AM
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