Date: 2009-12-10 05:24 pm (UTC)
I'm trying to understand you. Thank you for taking the time explaining this to me.

Has science concluded that infinity doesn't exist? One can never - by definition - measure something which is infinite. You might be able to reason about it, using an inductive proof, but it's outside the realm of the empirical. Yet, I imagine, many scientists would probably tell me they understand the concept of infinity.

So, without being able to measure or observe something which is infinite, a scientist can still assert the truth and existance of a concept's validity based purely on reasoning alone. Or, woudld you say that mathematicians and logicians find the concept of infinity useful, but science concludes that it does not exist because none such thing can be observed or measured?

Gnarly, confusing ...
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