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Re: infinity can't exist
Posted:
Feb 16, 2013 5:46 PM
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:12:03 +0000 (UTC), Michael Stemper wrote:
>In article <13c1e093-ab86-45e6-9417-7526eb422a08@googlegroups.com>, Craig Feinstein <cafeinst@msn.com> writes:
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>>Let's say I have a drawer of an infinite number of identical socks
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>>Contents of drawer at time 0 =3D (Contents of drawer at time 1) plus (sock =
>>taken out of drawer).
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>>Subtracting the equations, we get
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>>Nothing =3D sock taken out of drawer.
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>>This is false, so infinity cannot exist.=20
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>>How does modern mathematics resolve this paradox?
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>Modern mathematics does not claim that an infinite number of socks can
>exist, and neither does modern physics.
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>Although physics does not allow an infinite number of socks, it is easy
>to see that if a very large number of socks was brought together, they would
>collapse into a singularity. Your attempt to remove one of them would cause
>you to pass through the Sock Event Horizon, at which time you would no longer
>be able to remove any of them.
An interesting and creative scenario. Nicely done.
Though the number of sheep needed to make that many socks might
collapse into a singularity first.
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