Can You Name Some Things That Are Infinite?

[jackangel]

that post whore thread

 

[sermon_of_crockery]

I ALWAYS TELL MYSELF THAT I'M GOING TO STOP NEXT MONTH BUT WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT MY CAPS, I'LL ADD ANOTHER MONTH BEFORE I STOP. RIGHT NOW, I THINK I'M UP TO ANOTHER 223 MONTHS AND YOU JUST MADE IT 224. SO AS OF THIS POINT, IF NOONE SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT IT FOR THE NEXT 224 MONTHS, I'LL STOP THEN.






KAYNE

That's right everybody, 223 months from now, when KAYNE is still typing in caps everybody can turn to me, sermon of crockery, and say "YOU CAUSED THIS TO HAPPEN!"

 

[alien amp pharm]

that post whore thread

Hell yeah it is.
It blew away the "biggest thread in Elite history" by a lot.

 

[nevertoobig]

...imagination is also infinite (don't confuse infinite with eternal).

If this is taken to be true, then that means that memory is also infinite because imagination and memory are very closley linked, if not the same. To remember, you have to create an image.


Anyway...

Bullit, what I meant was the memory capacity of a live human brain. I was talking about it as if it were possible for a person to live forever.

Everything you said was correct though.


If we want to talk about things more mathematically, then there's lots of things that can be considered 'infinite'.

e.g. The set of Integers
The set of real numbers.
A geometric series whose general term is 1/(2^r) and whose sum is 1.

etc...

 

[gettinlarger]

Ignorance.

 

[Deathwish]

Reactions .For every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction

 

[Bullit]

Bullit, what I meant was the memory capacity of a live human brain. I was talking about it as if it were possible for a person to live forever.

The ONLY time we could have infinite memory capacity would be if we could live forever, AND the number of possible neuro-junctions was infinite.

As soon as the number of memories is limited - by the finite number of junctions - the sum cannot approach infinity.

 

[BIG bad man]

now death wish it isnt nice to repeat your self

 

[nevertoobig]

The ONLY time we could have infinite memory capacity would be if we could live forever, AND the number of possible neuro-junctions was infinite.

As soon as the number of memories is limited - by the finite number of junctions - the sum cannot approach infinity.

Which is why i said 'is so big, it be considered infinite' rather than it is infinite. I wasn't talking mathematically.

'Infinite' is only a word which is interpreted differently by everybody. I've already given examples of it in the mathematical sense as I see it.

Of course ignorance and stupidity arent infinte in a mathematical sense, but then in another they are. Again, you're correct in what you said though.

 

[Lift Chief]

Bubble Universe!

Game over!

Next!

Assuming that is the way the Universe is setup....