Infinity = 1?

[The_ModeRazor]

No. Philosophy.

Seriously, after a while it makes you feel like you've listened to the Max Payne theme song for too long.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Infinity=concept

1=Me on a Friday night

1 is the loneliest number that you'll ever do

 

[Georgie_Leech]

Infinity is not a number, but a concept. Infinity has no value. 100 is not any closer to it than 1 is. Not that there is very little difference, but 0. People always try to to use it in mathematics, but it really doesn't work like that. Infinities, or singularities, are even an indicator that a scientific theory is not complete; Einstein's Theory of Relativity isn't completely right.

Oh, and while I'm at it... The universe is not infinite, just very large and without boundaries in three dimensions, much like the surface of a sphere has no boundary in two dimensions.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[brucelee13245]

Infinity isn't a number, its an idea. It can't be 1, because 1 is a number, not an idea.

Beneath this mask is more than flesh, beneath this mas is an idea Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof! ( sorry it popped into my head when u said this)

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Well it's not a number so how could something that's not a number equal a number? And you are basing this off of theories that are impossible to even try to wrap your head around.

Also, let's use this theory really quick. I have 1 phone. Does this mean I have an infinite amount of phones? No, I have a finite amount of phones. Theory disproved.

 

[enzilewulf]

Well there is only one universe... but there are more planets and stars that are also expanding with the universe. So that means there is more than one in the expanding universe... damn this hurts my head..

 

[Jaranja]

All of everything would come to a number. If time stopped for long enough for you to count all of everything; you'd get a ridiculous fucking number but not infinity.

Yes, but you can't have more than all of everything.

And it would be infinity, because I'd have to count with space

I disagree, I don't think infinity exists. Yet.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Jaranja]

I disagree, I don't think infinity exists. Yet.

I think it exists, but we can't just imagine it.

It's not for human minds

Not for earthen minds, methinks, ol' Maxxy Boy.

 

[reg42]

Infinity isn't a number, its an idea. It can't be 1, because 1 is a number, not an idea.

Beneath this mask is more than flesh, beneath this mas is an idea Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof! ( sorry it popped into my head when u said this)

Hi, I'm reg42, and I approve of this reference.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Infinity isn't a number, its an idea. It can't be 1, because 1 is a number, not an idea.

Beneath this mask is more than flesh, beneath this mas is an idea Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof! ( sorry it popped into my head when u said this)

Darth Vader: Luke... help me take this mask off.
Luke: But you'll die.
Darth Vader: Nothing... can stop that now. Just for once... let me... look on you with my *own* eyes.

I just thought that since we are talking about masks... you know.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Maze1125]

But, while we're on the subject of things equalling 1:
0.999... = 1

GRRRRRRRR... I disagree.
Goddamn decimals. A fraction sees past all this bullshit and actually divides 1 by an exact third, not by a 'infinity plus 1' style number that mathematicians just pass off as 0.999... .

There's no "passing off" involved.
0.999... has a precise definition and it can be easily shown from that definition that it equals 1.
0.333... also has a precise definition and is exactly equal to the fraction 1/3.
Fractions certainly look neater on the page, but that doesn't mean they are less exact.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Bullshit, infinity=infinity, it doesnt stop for computers infinity is somewere arounf 999,999,999 but that still isnt even close

 

[Godavari]

I'm not sure you understand the whole "multiple universes" thing.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Well, as the theory of the universe is that either: it is infinite, or the space between different universes is infinite, then no

 

[Lukeje]

I was watching this http://bbc.co.uk/i/qszch/
It's about infinity, but it touches upon the big bang/inflation theory.

And well it got me thinking...

"So...An infinite amount of universes, each one containing an infinite amount of galaxies and planets, expanding out into an infinite amount of space... Surely at some point these could/would theoretically expand into each other - Which brings us back too 1, does this mean 1 is the biggest number in the world - As well as the smallest?. Since you can't have nothing - Nothing is the absence of 1. My head hurts."

Couldn't be bothered to rewrite that so I looted it from my facebook status.

Kinda rushed that due to being at work and what not (quiet day). Point I am trying to get at is 1 is the be all and end all?

When this infinite expands into each other they will become one giant (for lack of a better term) universe. Now you could do this ad nauseum but the resulting factor would end up becoming 1...Any number you can think of is 1 repeated right?

Any number from the countably infinite integers is unity repeated at any rate. The number of points on a line can't be represented in this way (it's an `uncountable infinity').

...and unfortunately your theory also requires an infinite amount of time (which you may realise is rather unphysical).

 

[Bigsmith]

Ah actualy, doing a Lvl maths has taught me one thing. A lvl maths hurts ur brain, alot.

For example, a sequence of numbers such as 2, 1, 0.5, 0.25 etc etc can actauly be used to work out the sum of infinity. with the starting number being 2 and the ratio between each number is a multipication of 0.5. using the equation sum(to infinity)= 2/1-0.5 meaning the sum to infinty of the sequence is in fact 4 (2/o.5= 2x2= 4).

Using ur theory you are stating that 4=1, which im sure some university boffin could actauly do, or u are stating that any number could quite possibly equaly infinity hence making infity truely infinite just as 4 where to equal 1.

Im sure none of u can make any sence of what i have just said but simply way to put it is, think of the largest number u can. e.g. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000

now add 1. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000001.

becuase of this infinty is impossible to find which is why it is simply there so that we havin sumthing to think we have stoped at. But hey, 100 years ago they thought it was impossible for a human being to travel faster then 10mph without suffocating.

 

[Lexodus]

But, while we're on the subject of things equalling 1:
0.999... = 1

GRRRRRRRR... I disagree.
Goddamn decimals. A fraction sees past all this bullshit and actually divides 1 by an exact third, not by a 'infinity plus 1' style number that mathematicians just pass off as 0.999... .

There's no "passing off" involved.
0.999... has a precise definition and it can be easily shown from that definition that it equals 1.
0.333... also has a precise definition and is exactly equal to the fraction 1/3.
Fractions certainly look neater on the page, but that doesn't mean they are less exact.

You completely missed my point. Fractions are MORE precise, because they don't get into this whole shitty business. As far as fractions are concerned, it's just 1/3. And I will never agree that 9 = 10.