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Re: Problems with Infinity?
Posted:
Feb 24, 2013 5:28 AM
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On 24 Feb., 10:38, Don Kuenz <garb...@crcomp.net> wrote:
> "William Elliot" <ma...@panix.com> wrote:
> > Don wrote:
> > > Let's say a Mobius strip goes to infinity "feedback style" (in layman's
> > > terms) while a line goes to two separate but equal infinities "linear
> > > style." How many different infinities does that make according to
> > > Cantor? One, two, or three?
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> > No portion of the Mobius strip can go to infinity as it's bounded.
> > Does "go to infinity feedback style" mean anything?
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> It's my clumsy way of saying "geometric infinity," which you address
> below. :)
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> > The line can be consider to extend to a point at infinite.
> > Cantor did not deal with geometric infinity.
> > His infinities are the cardinalities of sets.
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> --
> Don Kuenz
Why do you think there are different infinities in geometry? The
moebius strip is simply an infinite loop, isn't it?
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