Is infinity pseudo science?
Isn't it an assumption based on uncertainty?
Is infinity pseudo science?
James Mitchell
Nicholas Turner
math =/= science
Landon Morales
No, uncertainty is an assumption based on things not being infinite.
David Allen
You have uncertainty regardles of finiteness being present. For instance, the limiting case of a distribution curves resolution gives no additional insight on how the sampling is perforned.
Brandon Davis
Infinity is a difficult concept and most cases where it sounds "wrong" thats because you misapply mathematics^^ e.g. your example : you use "=" in a completely other sense than you'd do in "x = 1", in your case it is ( at best, though i dont like this notation and one could argue it is wrong) used to show the sum of an infinite series. Which is way different from any finite sum you could come up with :P
If you come from a scientific background , you could argue "there's a minimal and a maximal time/space/energy... with any physical meaning ( e.g. 10^(-43) s for time)", so you could argue "well a physicist can't talk about anything outside those boundaries, since physics is bounded by our universe", but nothing more than that. What happens most often is a physical value not being clearly enough defined so it "seems" like infinity. E.g. what is the "temperature" of laser light? For some (naive) definitions of temperature this is a hard question.
Ryan Adams
what is the temperature of laser light
Xavier Edwards
>Is infinity pseudo science?
Math isn't science
Angel Jenkins
>formal science isn't science
Zachary Flores
I wish mods deleted these stupid threads desu.
Adam Butler
>fell for the 300k starting meme
stay mad