If you're dividing by infinities you're doing a meaningless operation, one which can't be determined, unless you know the nature of how those infinities arise. For instance a sphere whose radius is expanding as time passes will eventually being infinite in size after an infinite time, that does not mean the volume or radius divided by the time, which would produce the rate or speed of expansion, would be "1", it would not even necessarily be a constant increase in volume or radius and certainly wouldn't be zero.
If you didn't know the way in which such an expansion occurred, say because you popped into a space that was already truly massive in size and age, you'd have no way to measure how it increased in size with time and thus the answer 'could not be determined' and so on. A given volume or radius might, for instance, actually expand faster as time goes on, thus leading to a value for expansion that wasn't 0, 1, or some constant value between zero and infinity but some variable instead.
If you didn't know the way in which such an expansion occurred, say because you popped into a space that was already truly massive in size and age, you'd have no way to measure how it increased in size with time and thus the answer 'could not be determined' and so on. A given volume or radius might, for instance, actually expand faster as time goes on, thus leading to a value for expansion that wasn't 0, 1, or some constant value between zero and infinity but some variable instead.
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This message last edited by Isaac on 16/08/2011 at 05:42:21 PM
Psuedo-scientic metaphysical question thingy about infinity. Plus some other random stuff.
16/08/2011 12:22:44 AM
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This kinda hinges on quantum, planck units, and even dark matter
16/08/2011 12:58:57 AM
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I think you're actually asking more than about infinity.
16/08/2011 01:04:54 AM
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Your central premise here is the reason I posit Unity as the First Cause.
16/08/2011 12:31:54 PM
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Re: Psuedo-scientic metaphysical question thingy about infinity. Plus some other random stuff.
16/08/2011 05:09:32 AM
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I don't know about the rest of the questions but I approach sobriety with atleast a liter of tequila *NM*
16/08/2011 06:12:53 AM
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Well, you haven't said anything about the space or density, so it's impossible to comment on volume.
16/08/2011 12:09:41 PM
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Infinity divided by infinity = 1...
16/08/2011 01:14:38 PM
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Definitely not
16/08/2011 05:19:27 PM
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