Infinite Universe?
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Out of curiosity.. didn't you understand my explanation? or are you trolling? I am really confused whether I need to explain or not...
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Super Lloyd wrote:
didn't you understand my explanation?
I guess not. You asked a bunch of questions so I don't see that as an explanation.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Super Lloyd wrote:
didn't you understand my explanation?
I guess not. You asked a bunch of questions so I don't see that as an explanation.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
If you are a one dimensional being living on a circle like universe. The circle has no end, yet it is finished. If you are a 2 dimensional being living on a sphere or a doughnut like universe, your universe has no end yet it is finished. There is a good chance we live on some kind of hypersphere... The question here were to make you think. It failed apparently. To be exact not a 3D space floating in a 4D universe.... a 3D universe of its own with such properties as a 3D sphere in 4D universe...
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If you say it loud enough, we won't notice that you spelt it wrong! :laugh:
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I don't know how to spell it on english, that's on spanish
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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raddevus wrote:
The Universe, if physical -- and it is, must have a limit.
No.
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If you are a one dimensional being living on a circle like universe. The circle has no end, yet it is finished. If you are a 2 dimensional being living on a sphere or a doughnut like universe, your universe has no end yet it is finished. There is a good chance we live on some kind of hypersphere... The question here were to make you think. It failed apparently. To be exact not a 3D space floating in a 4D universe.... a 3D universe of its own with such properties as a 3D sphere in 4D universe...
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If the laws of the universe are the same throughout the universe then the answer must be, "unfortunately yes". :-D
True but considering Yin /Yang Parallel universe concept, Windows 10 os would be opensource and widely welcomed and Linux would be closed source lol. Linus would be in Bill's position . :-D
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Forogar wrote:
Assuming the Universe is infinite
Fortunately the universe is not. ;) Marc
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Seems like that's an integer underflow problem -- you need a bigger processor.
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Google it and you'll find the "proof" (as in mathematical proof) that shows how the number was derived.
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Assuming the Universe is infinite then the number of stars in said Universe must also be infinite and therefore the number of planets orbiting said stars, that can support human-like life, is infinite and therefore the chance of there being at least one other human-like civilisation is infinitely close to 1. Therefore, do you think they would all have developed a Windows 10 O/S?
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According to Einstein, the only two infinite things are the universe and human stupidity, but he was not sure about the universe.
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Assuming the Universe is infinite then the number of stars in said Universe must also be infinite and therefore the number of planets orbiting said stars, that can support human-like life, is infinite and therefore the chance of there being at least one other human-like civilisation is infinitely close to 1. Therefore, do you think they would all have developed a Windows 10 O/S?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
It just doesn't matter. We are sitting on one of know one even has a really good guess how many planets. There's no way, from here, to know if the Universe is or isn't infinite. I just don't care. :zzz:
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Assuming the Universe is infinite then the number of stars in said Universe must also be infinite and therefore the number of planets orbiting said stars, that can support human-like life, is infinite and therefore the chance of there being at least one other human-like civilisation is infinitely close to 1. Therefore, do you think they would all have developed a Windows 10 O/S?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
There ARE bridges too far to cross. They may have avoided Windows 10 but likely are hung up on Doors 21.
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raddevus wrote:
So, science cannot deal with infinite.
Indeed. One of the reasons the number zero was not adopted by many cultures and banned by various religions is that the number zero leads to the problem of infinity, and only God can be infinite. That said, on theological grounds, since God is infinite, and infinite God could only exist in a finite universe, so I retract my statement that the universe is not infinite. ;) Marc
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raddevus wrote:
So, science cannot deal with infinite.
Indeed. One of the reasons the number zero was not adopted by many cultures and banned by various religions is that the number zero leads to the problem of infinity, and only God can be infinite. That said, on theological grounds, since God is infinite, and infinite God could only exist in a finite universe, so I retract my statement that the universe is not infinite. ;) Marc
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Google it and you'll find the "proof" (as in mathematical proof) that shows how the number was derived.
Richard Deeming had a link and I was being facetious and snarky. :-D Pretty cool math.
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Assuming the Universe is infinite then the number of stars in said Universe must also be infinite and therefore the number of planets orbiting said stars, that can support human-like life, is infinite and therefore the chance of there being at least one other human-like civilisation is infinitely close to 1. Therefore, do you think they would all have developed a Windows 10 O/S?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
There was one like this that I loved... On any planet in which intelligent life is found, the probability that they will explain their existence on a God is 1... To the original post, even if infinite, it may be the case that intelligence is only on one planet at a time! And I can't wait for Earths turn!
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raddevus wrote:
The Universe cannot be infinite
Then where does it end and what's on the other side?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Assuming that you're not trolling :)... Just because something is not infinite does not mean that it isn't endless. A loop is not infinite (inasmuchas it has a measurable size) but doesn't have an end either. The Cosmos (and others) talked about this rather nicely with the 2D version of reality called Flatland. A Flatlander's reality could be mapped into our 3D reality by visualising it as inhabiting the surface of a sphere. The Flatlander walks and walks and soon finds themselves where they started. Seems infinite, but in fact is not. If you map our 3D space into a higher dimensional reality (which would be difficult for us to imagine and really requires pure mathematics to explore) then we could travel in any direction and end up where we started, the implications of which would be very hard for our puny 3D brains to comprehend. The Universe seems intuitively infinite because otherwise we assume that there must be an "edge" but there probably isn't.
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Assuming the Universe is infinite then the number of stars in said Universe must also be infinite and therefore the number of planets orbiting said stars, that can support human-like life, is infinite and therefore the chance of there being at least one other human-like civilisation is infinitely close to 1. Therefore, do you think they would all have developed a Windows 10 O/S?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Flipping a coin on a flat surface almost always results in heads or tails. But there is a very small possibility that the coin will come to rest on its edge. However, given a infinite number of flips, the coin will come to rest on its edge an infinite number of times. I believe infinity is best thought of as a convenient mathematical construct.
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Flipping a coin on a flat surface almost always results in heads or tails. But there is a very small possibility that the coin will come to rest on its edge. However, given a infinite number of flips, the coin will come to rest on its edge an infinite number of times. I believe infinity is best thought of as a convenient mathematical construct.
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Assuming that you're not trolling :)... Just because something is not infinite does not mean that it isn't endless. A loop is not infinite (inasmuchas it has a measurable size) but doesn't have an end either. The Cosmos (and others) talked about this rather nicely with the 2D version of reality called Flatland. A Flatlander's reality could be mapped into our 3D reality by visualising it as inhabiting the surface of a sphere. The Flatlander walks and walks and soon finds themselves where they started. Seems infinite, but in fact is not. If you map our 3D space into a higher dimensional reality (which would be difficult for us to imagine and really requires pure mathematics to explore) then we could travel in any direction and end up where we started, the implications of which would be very hard for our puny 3D brains to comprehend. The Universe seems intuitively infinite because otherwise we assume that there must be an "edge" but there probably isn't.
Ralph Little wrote:
Assuming that you're not trolling
What is wrong with people on the internet. As soon as someone disagrees with you they must be trolling? :doh:
Ralph Little wrote:
A loop is not infinite (inasmuchas it has a measurable size) but doesn't have an end either.
I disagree. If you pick a point on the loop and call it the starting point, you can quickly see that there is also an endpoint.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Ralph Little wrote:
Assuming that you're not trolling
What is wrong with people on the internet. As soon as someone disagrees with you they must be trolling? :doh:
Ralph Little wrote:
A loop is not infinite (inasmuchas it has a measurable size) but doesn't have an end either.
I disagree. If you pick a point on the loop and call it the starting point, you can quickly see that there is also an endpoint.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
> What is wrong with people on the internet. As soon as someone disagrees with you they must be trolling? That was actually a joke. Don't take me too seriously. ;) > I disagree. If you pick a point on the loop and call it the starting point, you can quickly see that there is also an endpoint. In that case, you could arbitrarily call anything an "endpoint". I think what most people intuitively call an "end" in the context of this discussion, is somewhere you cannot go beyond, a point beyond which nothing exists. At least that's how I would interpret it. Interestingly though, although people can conceive of an end of a universe as a concept, I don't know if they could actually describe what it would be like. Perhaps it would a big wall. Perhaps it would be just a void-like nothingness, but surely that would be just space with nothing in it and therefore not and end at all? Sometimes trying to describe something precisely betrays our ignorance of what we actually mean.
