The implications of infinity (co) are actualiy not that old. The Greeks were some of the first mathematicians recorded to have imagined the concept of infinity. However, they did not actuaily delve into the entirety of this number. The Greeks used the term “potentially infinite," for the concept of an actual limitless value was beyond their comprehension. The actual term “infinity” was defined by Georg Cantor, a renowned German mathematician, in the late nineteenth century. It was originally used in his Set Theory, which is a very important theory to the mathematical world. The value of infinity can get a bit confusing, as there are different types of infinity. Many claim that infinity is not a number. This is true, but it does have a value. So, infinity may be used in mathematical equations as the greatest possible value. i The value of infinity Infinity (00) is the greatest possibleivalue that can exist. However, there are different infinities that, by logic, are greater than other forms of itself. Here is one example: to the set of ait Naturai numbers Z43, 2, 3, 4,...}, there are an infinite amount of members. This is usualiy noted by Ko, which is the cardinality of the set of alt natural numbers,
Likewise, in the set of ail Real numbers RU, 1.1, 1.11, 1.111,...} there are an infinite amount of members as weli. This sets cardinality is represented by t’ or, as Cantor proved in 1874, N1. it there are an infinite amount of Real values between each of the infinite amount of
In other words, maybe Descartes could think up the idea of infinity, because he is
) Determine whether each of these set is finite, countably infinite, or uncountable. Justify your answer
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The human mind seems incapable of comprehending the idea of infinity, yet we accept the idea of an immortal being. A
Infinite in Between is a book by Printz Honor author Carolyn Mackler. The book follows 5 teens through their highschool years, including family struggles, heartbreaks, falling in love, and much more. There are 5 teenagers that the author portrays, Jake, Whitney, Mia, Gregor, and Zoe. At first all of the teens start off at their freshman orientation, there they are put into groups Jake, Gregor, Whitney, Mia, and Zoe are all put into the same group. They are forced to do a project, none of them are really friends, and they don’t want to have a conversation, but finally they decide to write letters to their future selves and hide them. They agreed they would write a letter, put it in and envelope, hide it, and on graduation day they would all
It rejects the idea of an infinite universe because as time is always being added on, time cannot be infinite. This argument was also discovered in the western world by William L. Craig, who revised it to some extent. The argument states that if the universe was infinite then all of time would exist simultaneously. A good example of this idea would be Hilbert’s paradox of the Grand Hotel, which was introduced by David Hilbert and it proved that a fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms may still accommodate additional guests, even infinitely many of them and that this process may be repeated infinitely
It is not possible for an infinite God to exist in a person’s finite understanding. The Christian God discusses frequently the concept of trusting him with all a person has. Trust is the basis of the Christian relationship with God. A way for God to want his people to trust him is by them not knowing and understanding fully his infinite being. If his followers know everything about him, then there would not be any need in relying on trusting God. Anselm gives another reason people’s finite minds not being able to understand. He breaks it down into people understanding God in their imagination and in reality. The problem with this break down is both imagination and reality are both finite. While an imagination might be able imagine a greater object than what exists in reality, both are still finite. When something or someone is infinite, it is always going to be larger than imagination and reality combined. Like with the number infinity, people cannot grasp where it begins, ends, or even the amount. That is because there is no beginning, no end, or no amount and person can pinpoint on it. The same goes with the concept of an infinite God. There is no beginning, end, or value that a person can grasp in their finite
By using geometry to evade irrational numbers, a mathematical crisis had been covered. Although Greeks could not tolerate irrational numbers, they accepted “irrational geometric quantities such as the diagonal of the unit square” (Lecture 8. Eudoxus, Avoided a Fundamental Conflict), or square root
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The real is the rational, and the rational is the real. In philosophical discussion, no statement is, perhaps, more important or more controversial. Yet, this is the very position that I advocate within this paper. The equation of the rational with the real is at the heart of the argument I here consider, that being the ontological argument for the existence of God.
By God I understand a being absolutely infinite, i.e., a substance consisting of an infinity of attributes, of which one expresses an eternal and infinite essence (1def6)
In Aquinas argument the first point that creates a problem about how he knows that god exists. Is how he explains that nothing is capable of moving itself, it has to be moved by something, and that a sequence cannot be infinite. It is that first thing that starts the chain which he calls god. With the exception of the forever forward motion of time, numbers can go on, in both positive and negative directions infinitely. This has been argued and proved by mathematics. Even though infinity may go beyond
Although this seems to be illogical, this is the way in which infinity functions. All whole numbers are countable, however the fact that there is an infinite amount of whole numbers makes it impossible to count all of them. This means that even if humanity was in such an advanced society that all knowledge was acquirable, it would remain impossible to access all of it. But is knowledge infinite? In several religions, there is a God who is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omnipotent. This means that if God truly exist, He would know an infinite amount of knowledge, meaning that there would be an infinite amount of knowledge. Regardless of the truth behind the existence of God, those who believe in Him must accept the fact that there isn’t a limit on knowledge. However, even if knowledge is finite, the human race is so distant from the “end” that it makes no practical difference. Nevertheless, no matter the amount of knowledge acquirable, there will always be information that cannot be physically
In the search to answer the question of how many universes there are, more questions arise. Questions regarding the technology needed to find an answer or if an answer is even possible comes into play. Therefore, it is not known how many universes there are due to there simply being a lack of information. There are too many unknowns to find an answer, which leads to the many different theories. For example, having parallel universes, a single universe, or a multiverse, as it is believed today, leads to an endless string of questions. The only conclusive answer is that at least one universe exists, but there is a possibility of infinite universes also existing.
Perhaps the single most important thing that we know about conditions immediately after the Big Bang is that the universe was extremely dense. That is, all the matter and energy in it was compressed very tightly together. On the other hand we do not know how big the universe was immediately after the Big Bang. Because we do not know how big the universe is now. If the Universe is infinitely large then it would have been infinitely large then, because there is now way something could go from have a finite size to having an infinite size. So if the universe has a finite size today then it had a finite, and proportionally small, size then.