“A number is how far along you are on your journey, infinity is the horizon you journey towards.” - Some guy I met in a pub
I believe there’s an absolute infinity.
I also believe that
Infinity is a concept that we made up for the purpose of explaining some math. Prove me wrong.
I dunno about proving you wrong, but the fact that you can comfortably say there is no largest natural number is kind of a belief in infinity
Which theory is the most plausible?
The question doesn’t make sense, there are many things which have an infinite quality (like infinite cardinality) or are called infinite/infinity (like infinite cardinals and ordinals). They’re not contradictory. They coexist the same as all finite things do.
There is currently no way to observe any of this empirically, so the question is pretty much moot. It’s speculation either way.
Explain?
Might be this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Infinite
Or this is about some people thinking infinity is just a really big number, with which you can do calculations like e.g. (these are non-sensical!):
- ∞ - ∞ = 0
- 2*∞ > ∞
Bonkers
I mean, the Casimir effect was initially derived as the result of two infinite values having a finite difference.
I misread that as “absolute immunity” and thought you had posted to the wrong community.
The meme works just as well, “absolute immunity” is just more topical and political than mathematical
