No, I declared this world is finite. But it is good to see you holding out belief in something that you have yet to witness, such as the value of an infinitely decimated irrational number. You are not too far off from those who believe in God whether or not they've witnessed his presence.
Good point... God is repeatably available whereas nobody has ever seen an infinitely decimated irrational number and the physics here simply do not permit such an observation. Still, I admired your wishful thinking.
Good point... God is repeatably available whereas nobody has ever seen an infinitely decimated irrational number and the physics here simply do not permit such an observation. Still, I admired your wishful thinking.
and while your insistence that the infinite does not exist to me is such great fun. This is even better. Since you can prove that if it does exist you couldn't see it, this is proof that it doesn't exist.
I'l keep my eye open, love QI ...and Fry's intellect. Thanks
Tao
If you believe that I can infinitely repeat something then you believe in life after death.Tao_Equus said:
If you place faith in me then you will do as I ask with belief in me, or you will ask me to do something believing that I will with your best interest in mind. In both cases there is communication and there is ample evidence of me gained. So faith and evidence are NOT exclusive opposites. Faith in me is the method you might get to truly know me. If you have no communication with me whatsoever then you have NOT placed faith in me... you wouldn't even know whether or not I even existed. I could just be a computer program. You don't really know me until you have interacted with me. Even upon interacting with me a little you still don't fully know my will, intentions, or personality... you don't really know what I care about. But with time and interaction with me you could get to know me. Faith in me is in that interaction. Evidence of me is from that interaction.Tao_Equus said:
There was a day that I lazily believed that I knew God was not really present in people's lives. I was wrong.Snoopy said:
I've enjoyed the argument too. If you could interact with PI or infinity then I imagine you would prove they exist. I submit that we may agree that at least 'nothing' is infinte... that is if you could decimate something into an infinite number of pieces then each piece would be the size or the mass of nothing. Basic math. So then if 'nothing' conceptually exists then so does 'infinity'... in the same manner that so does 'Santa Claus' and all other manner of fiction. The concepts and the words do exist whether or not it is fact or fiction. Saying that 'nothing' is infinite is not to say that 'space' or a 'vacuum' is infinite either... rather it means that no space, no mass, no time, no force, no thing (or nothing) are infinite. Whether or not something in addition to 'nothing' is infinite is the argument but it is already firmly established that 'nothing' itself is in fact infinite. So then depending on your definition of 'exist'... I'd say that even Santa Claus does exist as fiction.
The infinite decimation of an irrational number suggests infinite detail. Kind of like a mandelbrot set... you could allegedly keep zooming in forever and find ever finer detail._Z_ said:
In the imagination of math within any range of numbers: (# of irrational numbers / # of rational numbers) = Infinity
I thought you quite bright enough to distinguish between a turn of phrase and a statement of fact......do I really have to be so careful with you?
Sorry buddy, not in the market for a guru at the moment
Someone who cares? I asked you a question but you are free to ignore it.
A guru? If and when you seek God then you will find the guru. In the meantime seek to place faith in even the least of people. A guru? Wow that was revealing.Sorry buddy, not in the market for a guru at the moment
Tell you what? I may have confused you with someone else.
Only you can say.
False, but I can say: I was asking you. I was also asking anyone else who wanted to consider the question.