• Doctor xNo@r.nf
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    11 months ago

    So you believe the universe just ends somewhere with nothing behind it?

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      11 months ago

      What’s that got to do with anything? Infinity is just shorthand for “ever-increasing number”.

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          11 months ago

          First sentence from Wikipedia: “Infinity is something which is boundless, endless, or larger than any natural number.”

          In other terms give me a natural number n, I’ll show you a larger number, n+1, and I’ll do it again and again. That’s the definition of infinity. There’s always a bigger number.

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            11 months ago

            Boundless and endless (and the fact it’s larger than any number) doesn’t mean it’s ever-growing. It already is.

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              11 months ago

              Right! hence why you can only approach it with the limit notation, never operate on it directly. Please, take a calculus class. You might even learn this on day 1

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                11 months ago

                Again, I did… If I could argue all this out of pure imagination, now that would be something…