What is infinity doubled?
What is infinity halved?
Somebody humour me please!
Any good at math?
by Pubsinger 12 Replies latest jw friends
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JanH
infinity doubled or halved is still infinity.
- Jan
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LoneWolf
Jan H. is right. If it sounds strange, think of it as being like the opposite extreme: zero.
Zero halved is still zero. Zero doubled is still zero. The way of getting there is a little different, but the results are the same.
LoneWolf
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dmouse
Ah! But what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
(I know the answer to this btw - think logically)
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Fatal Error
The irressistable force would be dragged to the immovable object?
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dmouse
But the force is irresistible (either towards or away from), so the object cannot resist the push/pull and MUST move.
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Amazing
It depends on the 'infinite' thing you are dealing with. Conceptually, a general statement about infinity, or zero, as JanH and Lonewolf stated is correct.
If you specify, in a geometrical sense, an infinite line, and you double it, then you have two infinite lines. Your length does not increase, but the number of lines doubles. This is true in reverse, if you have two infinite lines, and reduce this by 50%, you are back to one infinite line.
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xyzzy
The irresistible force/immovable object thing is impossible. If a force is irresistible, then the immovable object cannot exist in the same universe, and vice versa. The existence of one precludes the existence of another.
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Farkel
dmouse,
: Ah! But what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
In my case the answer was "divorce."
Farkel