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Re: Problems with Infinity?
Posted:
Feb 26, 2013 1:54 PM
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:46:40 -0800 (PST), netzweltler
<reinhard_fischer@arcor.de> wrote in
<news:10d235a2-fc1e-4b76-aa2e-8622170ae701@fn10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
in rec.arts.sf.written,sci.math:
> On 25 Feb., 17:58, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@csuohio.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:48:05 -0800 (PST), netzweltler
>> <reinhard_fisc...@arcor.de> wrote in
>> <news:5da7d5eb-57a0-43a8-afba-131c856173ce@he10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
>> in rec.arts.sf.written,sci.math:
>> [...]
>>> If there is a horizontal infinite line, how do we assign
>>> the origin?
>> Arbitrarily.
>>> How do we prove, that the distance in meter from the
>>> origin I have chosen to the origin someone else (along
>>> this line) has chosen can be counted?
>> By proving that Lebesgue measure is is the unique complete,
>> translation-invariant measure on the sigma-algebra generated
>> by the intervals. Thus, one the two of you choose a unit,
>> the length of the interval between your origins is
>> completely determined.
> When we assign the origin of the horizontal infinite line,
> and we are coming from the left, we can count all the
> meters to the right of the origin. Can we possibly have
> counted all the meters to the left of the origin as soon
> as we arrive there?
What's this nonsense about 'coming' and 'arriving'?
Schon gut! Noch ein Ignorant.
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