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Does infinity exist?

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The univere is either expanding or shrinking. That can go on forever. They call it the big bang and the big crunch.
No. The universe may not obey the laws of earth. If not..all basis for your claim is null and void..and you cannot prove it, so do not claim it.
 
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No. The universe may not obey the laws of earth. If not..all basis for your claim is null and void..and you cannot prove it, so do not claim it.
The very first verse in the Bible says: "1:1 In the beginning God created * the heaven and the earth." Created is an expression of two words in the Hebrew. Perhaps you would like to share with us what you believe the word "Created" means. This is the third word used at the very beginning of the Bible.

As far as the laws of earth. Science tells us that we are star stuff. That most all the elements that make us us were formed in a star somewhere else in the universe. Every element has its open unique color when it burns so they can study the elements that make up stars and are formed in stars.
 
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The marriage [sup] per of the Lamb comes to mind. Writing numbers is not getting to infinity or beyond. One could write this formula for infinity

1i


The 'i' means to the infinite power. You think your letters have more meaning?
Irrelevant: you asserted that calculus does not involve the mathematical concept of infinity, so prove it. If calculus doesn't use infinity, then you should be able to show the differential of x[sup]2[/sup] with respect to x is 2x. So do it. Prove to us, one and for all, that you're right.

That is dreaming. Once you sit there watching an infinite feedback loop for eternity, get back to us.
We don't need to wait for eternity, that's the whole point.

Remember that 'in the system' part.

The randomness I suggest is a feature of this state we live in.
Irrelevant: the system, right here and now, in our laboratory, experiences this phenomenon. It doesn't matter if it's a feature of this state or not.

That is just a name. One neither sees something actually infinitely hot, nor can one say what might ever be. You mean within our laws, it could only be that way....that is not infinity or eternity.
Yes, it is. It actually, genuinely, physically does have an infinitely high temperature. And of course it's a name: it's the English word used for the phenomenon we're discussing. If you disagree that the temperature is infinity, then prove it.

Hey it is easy to call something 'infinity'. Reality check...it is inside a lab!
So?

One can play around with present state laws. No surprise there. If we take filing on a thin cardboard, and place a magnet below it, a pattern emerges also. Our present laws work a certain way.
Indeed, and certain experiments reveal quantities that are genuinely, physically infinite.

Where infinity is a word unrelated to actual infinity or eternity, yes we can play around and wath how forces and laws work here.
Prove it. Prove that the quantum thermodynamic system I described is "unrelated to actual infinity".

I do love how you can't get away from my successful demonstration of a real and genuine infinity without say, "Oh, but but but that's just words, you're just saying words!".
Best.
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I do love how you can't get away from my successful demonstration of a real and genuine infinity without say, "Oh, but but but that's just words, you're just saying words!".
Best.
Excuse.
Ever.

Word up yo
 
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Irrelevant: you asserted that calculus does not involve the mathematical concept of infinity, so prove it. If calculus doesn't use infinity, then you should be able to show the differential of x[sup]2[/sup] with respect to x is 2x. So do it. Prove to us, one and for all, that you're right.
No, I would argue that what real infinity and eternity are, is not contained in your math constructions. It may use theoretical infinity concepts, but when I think of eternity and infinity, the concepts reach higher than man's calculations. Man is in a finite world and universe and state. Therefore, however we mentally project things needs to be in perspective.

I mean if God and the departed believers and angels lived heaven, and we had space between there and here, we could say heaven was up. Even if spacial coordinates we know and think of in a 3D perspective did not apply in heaven, from our standpoint it would still be up. But one, then, could not draw a line straight out to infinity and beyond! So our concepts then are well and good within strict limits. If you jigger up something that flips stuff in a little lab, and want to call that 'infinite'..go ahead!! Not a lot of meaning, really. When we consider that the space and time and planet and universe that the little lab sits in is temporal, nothing that goes on there in reality is all that 'infinite' or eternal.
We don't need to wait for eternity, that's the whole point.
You can't. That is more to the point.


Yes, it is. It actually, genuinely, physically does have an infinitely high temperature. And of course it's a name: it's the English word used for the phenomenon we're discussing. If you disagree that the temperature is infinity, then prove it.
Infinity is a name, yes, as is eternity. Neither of which can be comprehended fully within a fishbowl of a temporal state. But, hey, if it makes you feel like a god or something, have fun playing with that.


Indeed, and certain experiments reveal quantities that are genuinely, physically infinite.
In a sense of the word, perhaps. But not a real sense as I think of eternal or infinite.

Prove it. Prove that the quantum thermodynamic system I described is "unrelated to actual infinity".

I do love how you can't get away from my successful demonstration of a real and genuine infinity without say, "Oh, but but but that's just words, you're just saying words!".
Best.
Excuse.
Ever.
Thanks. Having reasons (excuses as you call it) for why the pure form of eternal and infinite don't apply within a non infinite and non eternal sphere is easy. But I guess you could imagine that if something in a temporal lab on a temporal planet, in a temporal state set of forces and laws, in a temporal universe was truly able to do anything it now does infinitely or forever if you like. Seems vain and pretentious to me though.
 
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The very first verse in the Bible says: "1:1 In the beginning God created * the heaven and the earth." Created is an expression of two words in the Hebrew. Perhaps you would like to share with us what you believe the word "Created" means. This is the third word used at the very beginning of the Bible.
I would think it means what is sounds like. Why? That does not mean that Eden was the same as New York. Nor does it mean that all laws and realities in heaven or the heavens are the same as they were pre flood. Nor that they will be the same in the tribulation, or millennium..etc. Of course He created it all.
As far as the laws of earth. Science tells us that we are star stuff.
Hey tell them that that is farmyard dropping stuff. They are wrong. We were here first, and they have almost no real clue. If you start tossing out claims here be prepared to show the basis. Don't think you can play the 'but they have a PHD, they have to be right somehow' game. No. God is right. They are pathetic jokers.
That most all the elements that make us us were formed in a star somewhere else in the universe.
Baloney. Get serious. Man detects the stuff we have on earth elsewhere also...whoopee do.

Every element has its open unique color when it burns so they can study the elements that make up stars and are formed in stars.
No, you can't. Not unless it is burned on earth or near! Cut it out.
 
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To infinity and beyond!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Yes, I tend to question such claims. Invariably they come up short.

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We do not question that God is right, God is good and so on.
What we question is if you know God. Or to be more exact, do you represent God,
are you a spokes person for God in the way that people like Moses represented God.
I represent someone telling you to support your claims here.
 
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I represent someone telling you to support your claims here.
What claim do you want me to support? When I say: science says this or science says that, then it is up to science to support their claim. I am only informing you what they say. Often I get my science from a Nova PBS program. They usually promote programs based on a best selling book. Or in this case the information comes from Brian Cox on BBC. I am only telling you want science says. For me it is amazing that God gives us the understanding to share with us HOW He does what He does.

Star Death and the Creation of Elements - Wonders of the Universe: Stardust, preview - BBC Two - YouTube
 
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Right I get that from Brian Cox. For me he is able to teach in a way I can understand. He makes it all interesting.
That tells us a lot. Naming some guy that impressed you. Never heard of him. I tire of you and this thread.
 
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No, I would argue that what real infinity and eternity are, is not contained in your math constructions. It may use theoretical infinity concepts, but when I think of eternity and infinity, the concepts reach higher than man's calculations.
Then we have been talking past each other. Throughout, I've maintained and defined infinity in purely mathematical terms, while you have adopted a more... existential stance. Clearly, we're talking about completely different things when we use the word 'infinity'. Ah, such is the fickle nature of English :p
 
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Then we have been talking past each other. Throughout, I've maintained and defined infinity in purely mathematical terms, while you have adopted a more... existential stance. Clearly, we're talking about completely different things when we use the word 'infinity'. Ah, such is the fickle nature of English :p
OK.

"
in·fi·nite

  http://www.christianforums.com/#  /ˈɪnfənɪt/ Show Spelled[in-fuh-nit] Show IPA
adjective 1. immeasurably great: an infinite capacity for forgiveness.

2. indefinitely or exceedingly great: infinite sums of money.

3. unlimited or unmeasurable in extent of space, duration of time, etc.: the infinite nature of outer space.

4. unbounded or unlimited; boundless; endless: God's infinite mercy.

5. Mathematics . a. not finite.

b. (of a set) having elements that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with a subset that is not the given set."

Infinite | Define Infinite at Dictionary.com


Hey, Buzz may have thought his toy box was infinite..:)
 
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Naming some guy that impressed you.
He impressed me with his ability to be able to teach and communicate. He has a way to make learning fun and easy. Jesus was the greatest teacher that ever lived. Clearly we are to follow His example and develop our communication skills and the ability to be able to teach. Even though James warns us: "let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment."

James 3 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
 
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He impressed me with his ability to be able to teach and communicate. He has a way to make learning fun and easy.
It depends on what is being taught.

Jesus was the greatest teacher that ever lived. Clearly we are to follow His example and develop our communication skills and the ability to be able to teach.
No. Better to be quiet than teach the wrong stuff. Teaching in and of itself is not a great thing.

Even though James warns us: "let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment."
Especially if they teach evo garbage I guess.

James 3 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
Funny about that word perfect. Not what it seems to mean in the modern sense I suspect. Perhaps it might be translated... 'pretty good all things considered, for stinkin sinner'!?
 
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Foe example, you claimed this

That most all the elements that make us us were formed in a star somewhere else in the universe.

If you were still interested in this claim, this paper provides an excellent introduction to stellar nucleosynthesis. The first two sections (I-II) are likely to be most relevant.

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/10255/1/WALrmp97.pdf

Notably: "Modern cosmological models of big bang nucleosynthesis are tuned to produce [Deuterium, Helium-3, Helium-4] and some [Lithium-7] to fit observations of these species in very metal-poor stars and other astrophysical sources."
 
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