The infinitely large and Infinitely Small cannot exist.
May 26, 2019 6:50:45 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on May 26, 2019 6:50:45 GMT -5
The infinitely large and Infinitely Small cannot exist.
Can something be actually infinitely small or infinitely large and exist?Well, marthenmatically they are represntable. Infinity is represented symbolically as a figure eight on its side symbolizing an eternally-occuring loop. Also it is represented as arrows on a number-line indicating eternal additon or subtraction of numbers. But everything that is mathematically representable, isn’t necessarily possible in actual reality.
The Inifinitely Small
To illustrate, let's consider the infinitely small. Scientists continually make reference to this when they mention a singularity caused by a collapsing star and to the universe as it supposedly existed prior to the big bang. Having trouble inmagining how this can exist? Of course you are and the reason is that the infinitely small cannot exist. As an example, imagine a microscope with an infinite capacity for magnification. Let's us focus that infinitely powerful microscope on what we might imagine an infinitely small. Now, please notice that if indeed that microscope manages to focus on that object that is supposedly infinitely small, then it ceases to be infinitely small because then it assumes a measurable size and the infinitely small cannot be measured.
The Inifinitely Large
A similar paradox applies to the infinitely large. All things that exist need a location and parameters of form in order to exist. For example, a circle exists as a circle due to its edges that delineates its circularity. If we divest a circle of its edges then it becomes formless and ceases to exist as a circle. In fact, it disappears from existence altogether since to exist, things must have parameters within which the exist. If our universe is expanding into something, then it definitely has edges. If indeed our universe does not have edges, then it is formless. If the universe is formless, then it cannot exist because to exist things need to have form.
The same holds true with location. Things need location in in order to exist. An object that has absolutely no location is nonexistent. So the universe itself would require a location and that location another location and that one yet another location ad infinitum. This seems to indicate that existence itself is an impossibility because an ultimate location is an impossibility. In short, location seems to be an illusion of the senses instead of a separate reality because of the infinite regress problem.
An event that takes infinitely long to occur simply never happens. Something at an infinite distance is simply not there. Infinitely small means 0.
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