Originally Posted By: Bill S.

A “number” of anything is a finite thing. Something that is finite can never become infinite. Ergo, you cannot have an infinite number of anything.


http://gizmodo.com/5339831/pi-calculation-record-destroyed-25-trillion-decimals

There are natural things that can not be represented except to whatever precision you select they do indeed go on to infinitely.

The good old fibonacci sequence turns up alot in nature if the plant or animal continued to grow it would indeed go on to infinity it is truncated by some artifical limit or size.
(http://www.google.com.au/search?q=fibona...mp;ved=0CG0QsAQ)


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.

Of course you can argue that the present is neither an end, nor a beginning, but before tackling that, I must ask if time in yiur theory is tensed or un-tensed?


There is no reason to believe that universe is no predicated around the same rule that it has infinity at its heart but some other rule dictates the endpoints of either cycle or size whichever we talk about ... as you see with fibonacci sequence stuff that is very common in nature.

Last edited by Orac; 10/26/11 12:56 AM.
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