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ANNOTATION:
Infinity is not possible possible in nature, only in an nonapplied math...

Infinitity can only exsist in mathmatical equations that do not apply to nature. It exsists more as an wild card number that can only be defined when applied to nature. You see, there is natural laws to any given structure in this case it would be our surroundings. In any structure there is always a basic unit of mass, length, speed....etc. So no function found in this structure can exceed beyond its basic building blocks' propreties. For example a rock of uranium can only be radioactive for a certain time period due to its limmited mass or number of atoms in that rock. Because you cannot have have an atom. Infinity is an impossiblity, except in abstract math. Much like pie....3.14xxxxxxx...cannot be defined until you apply it to a structure.


Author: DJ ARnold (djarnold[ at ]wfubmc.edu)
Date: Nov 17, 2000

REPLY: then what

what you say is false.  In simple terms...What are the boundaries
of the universe?  And what is on the other side of the boundary?
Nothing? In this case nothing would be something wouldn't it? 
Mathematical models of inifinity precisely prove that inifinity
 exists. That is the purpose of math isn't it? A tool to describe 
our universe in quantitatively discrete or continuous terms.  Math
doesnt't lie, but helps us define what lies are I think.


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