Guest siddharta gautama Posted May 13, 2002 Posted May 13, 2002 the void.... infinity just ended.. nothing is permanent.
Guest Jolly Roger Posted May 13, 2002 Posted May 13, 2002 I'll try that one too! Add n + 1 empty lines here. (lim n -> infinity) Infinity just ended... Nothing is permanent.
Guest Andreas of Amygdala Posted May 13, 2002 Posted May 13, 2002 Let's use mathematical induction to prove the theorem proposed by professor siddharta gautama : Our hypothesis is, that infinity ends at n empty lines - if we can establish the base case for n = 0 where infinity stops, and prove that n + 1 => ceasure of infinity, we have - by induction - that infinity stops for all values of n. Since n = 0 implies NO empty lines, clearly we cannot talk about infinity, which implies it has ended, and nothing is indeed permanent. Trivial... Our induction hypothesis gives us, that for n empty lines, the same holds, so let's pick an n = i - 1, where i denotes the number of empty lines in the "void" posting. We can do that WLOG (without loss of generality), and it follows that i implies the ending of eternity. We already have, that n + 1 ( = (1 + (i - 1) = i), so the result comes easy: By the principal of structural induction (in our case induction in the structure of the natural numbers (mathematical induction)), and the fact that our system is isomorphic with regards to variable naming (we simply set i = n) we have established that if eternity ends for n, then -also- for n+1, and thus for all values of n (and therefore all numbers of empty lines) eternity ends. We can conclude, that nothing is permament. QED Why doesn't this hold?
Guest Andreas of Amygdala Posted May 14, 2002 Posted May 14, 2002 Of course it should have said "the theorem proposed by professor Jolly Roger"...
Guest david boon Posted May 14, 2002 Posted May 14, 2002 The only permanancy is that we know it infinity can end........
Guest tm Posted May 14, 2002 Posted May 14, 2002 If infinity can end, then it is not infinite. Isn't the whole point of infinity that it has no startpoint and no endpoint? When we think of something like infinity we tend to try to define it as something inside the domain of time and space where we operate. But the fact is that if something is infinite it transcends time or space, or both. The question then is if something like infinity or eternity actually exists, or if it exists just in theory.
Guest Jolly Roger Posted May 14, 2002 Posted May 14, 2002 Infinity has a starting point but it doesn't have a ending point. It starts from 0. oo = infinity a = oo^2 How this can be true if there's no bigger number than oo? This means that a is infinite times bigger than infinity. Or how about this: b = oo^oo Now the infinity is really infinite. Or is it? c = oo^oo^oo^oo^oo...*add oo numer of ^oo here*...^oo I should think up something better to do.
Guest DD Posted May 14, 2002 Posted May 14, 2002 Hey guys. You seem pretty down with this math stuff. I've read alot of math and stuff in highschool but I kinda forgot most of it and wanna go thru em all again from point zero just to fill my head with the instruments of math again as it seems i've had better stuff to lately. Anyone of you who could point me to a very good free site for mathematical information and studies. Like to learn on my own on internet without the need to buy the study books and such. The easier and the better the layout the better Thanx. Luv. DD.
Guest Jolly Roger Posted May 16, 2002 Posted May 16, 2002 lim (x -> oo) = (x-1/x)^x = e y ^ __ | / f(x) |/ A --------------+-----------> x / | ^ ^ / | a b / | b A = S (F( - F(a)) a
Guest siddharta gautama Posted May 16, 2002 Posted May 16, 2002 Infinity ended cuz the shroom peak was over.. fools =)
Guest blink Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 my love of scrambled eggs is infinite blink -no animals were harmed in the making of this post-
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