Originally Posted By: Bill S.
The infinite number of pulsations before 'the present one', is an infinity with an end; a contradiction in terms. The infinite number of pulsations after the present has a beginning, so is not infinite, for the same reason. If you regard each of these as half of infinity, then each is less than infinite, so it is finite, and therefore measurable. Measure one, multiply by 2 and you have measured infinity, which is nonsense.

You have to remember the simplest math of infinity. Infinity divided by any integer is still infinity. One infinity added to another infinity is still infinity. But in any infinity you can find non-infinite areas. There are an infinite number of integers. But within that infinity of integers it is easy to find non-infinite bits, such as the numbers 1,2,3,4,5. See, the total number of integers is infinite, but there is a finite number (5) of integers in that series which is still a part of the infinity of integers. So finiter's selection of one pulsation out of an infinite number of pulsations is perfectly ok.

I'm not standing up for finiter's hypothesis. I think it is just wishful thinking that he is smarter than everybody else.

Bill Gill

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