How big is infinity?

[kidwboro]

What's the biggest number you can write? Can you write a number that is bigger than infinity?

 

[Xalith]

Infinity is... Infinite.

You can't write an infinite number, the concept is absolutely impossible. You could take every atom in the entire universe, and put a 9 on it and this number would still be less than infinity.

The resultant number would be far, far, far larger than any computer could compute but it would still be less than infinity.

 

[RC1970]

Infinity is that of which there is none greater and it applies only to God. Everything else is finite.

 

[kidwboro]

Infinity is... Infinite.

You can't write an infinite number, the concept is absolutely impossible. You could take every atom in the entire universe, and put a 9 on it and this number would still be less than infinity.

The resultant number would be far, far, far larger than any computer could compute but it would still be less than infinity.

That's a lot of digits. No one could ever write out a number like that, not even if they were given a million years.
The number you're talking about is bigger than a googolplex.
That is a really really big number.
What if I were to take that really really big number, and raise it to the billionth power?
Would it still fall short of infinity?

 

[kidwboro]

Infinity is that of which there is none greater and it applies only to God. Everything else is finite.

What God has in store for us has got to be amazing, because my finite mind can think of some pretty big things.

 

[Xalith]

That's a lot of digits. No one could ever write out a number like that, not even if they were given a million years.
The number you're talking about is bigger than a googolplex.
That is a really really big number.
What if I were to take that really really big number, and raise it to the billionth power?
Would it still fall short of infinity?

Yes, it would still fall short of infinity.

Infinity has no end. A number, any number, is a set amount of something. Infinity has no "set amount" of anything.

That is why God Alone is Infinite.

That is why no Mortal, nor Angel, not even Archangels will ever be on His level or even come close. If we are a single speck of sand on a beach, God is the entire universe... or even bigger, perhaps.

There's... just not really a lot of ways to actually say it. Infinity cannot be measured, it cannot be defined in any way other than "having no limits". The only thing in the entirety of existence that this holds true for, is God Himself.

EDIT: You've heard of Eternity.... Eternity is basically an Infinite amount of Time.

 

[OliviaMay]

What's the biggest number you can write? Can you write a number that is bigger than infinity?

Infinity isn't a number

 

[Xalith]

Infinity isn't a number

Well, it kinda-sorta is.

Infinity is an amount, even if an infinite amount. There's no "set" amount, but yet if you have an infinite number of something, you do have something.... quite a lot of it.

But anyways, not trying to argue or anything, but Infinity (as a number) has a place in mathematics and is used in practical applications.

 

[OliviaMay]

Well, it kinda-sorta is.

Infinity is an amount, even if an infinite amount. There's no "set" amount, but yet if you have an infinite number of something, you do have something.... quite a lot of it.

But anyways, not trying to argue or anything, but Infinity (as a number) has a place in mathematics and is used in practical applications.

No it isn't a number. Math doesn't consider it a number.

 

[RC1970]

Well, it kinda-sorta is.

Infinity is an amount, even if an infinite amount. There's no "set" amount, but yet if you have an infinite number of something, you do have something.... quite a lot of it.

But anyways, not trying to argue or anything, but Infinity (as a number) has a place in mathematics and is used in practical applications.

In mathematics, infinity is not a real number (or amount), it is purely theoretical.

 

[miamited]

Hi kid,

Infinity is not a number. Infinity is a concept that describes something that has no endpoint. The universe is said to be infinite. Meaning that even after we pass the last galaxy that might be in the universe, we would still travel in the same direction forever and ever through black empty space. You can always add a '1' to a number to make it larger and so the numbering system is infinite. You can never conceive of a number that you cannot add '1' to. Other concepts of infinity are the points on a line or circle or three dimensional form. No matter what two points you set on such geometric forms, you can always put another point between those two.

God bless you,
In Christ, Ted

 

[Svt4Him]

Do you know .9 repeating to infinity equals 1? It does.

.999... = 1. Doesn't approach it, it equals it.

 

[kidwboro]

Yes, it would still fall short of infinity.

Infinity has no end. A number, any number, is a set amount of something. Infinity has no "set amount" of anything.

That is why God Alone is Infinite.

That is why no Mortal, nor Angel, not even Archangels will ever be on His level or even come close. If we are a single speck of sand on a beach, God is the entire universe... or even bigger, perhaps.

There's... just not really a lot of ways to actually say it. Infinity cannot be measured, it cannot be defined in any way other than "having no limits". The only thing in the entirety of existence that this holds true for, is God Himself.

EDIT: You've heard of Eternity.... Eternity is basically an Infinite amount of Time.

I can't even imagine something that big... a number of all the atoms in the universe being represented by digits of 9, and that colossial number itself being raised to the billionth power. That is BIG BIG BIG. And to think of infinity being infinitely larger than that number. The human mind cannot fathom it.
An infinite amount of time. Imagine an infinite amount of time in heavenly places. All the money in this tiny little planet couldn't buy it. All the human effort of all the generations of mankind put together couldn't come close to earning this treasure.
No wonder the Bible says all of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.

 

[MWood]

Here is another one for you.
Each atom has electrons, protons, neutrons. Some have only one each, others have several each. Count all of those and the number becomes even more infinite.

 

[Neogaia777]

The symbol for infinity, seems to suggest a circle, a never ending circle that goes round and round, "every new beginning is some other beginnings end" and round we go, forever, that is infinity, it never ends...

 

[Xalith]

The symbol for infinity, seems to suggest a circle, a never ending circle that goes round and round, "every new beginning is some other beginnings end" and round we go, forever, that is infinity, it never ends...

I always took that symbol to be basically the same thing as a Moebius Band, a geometric shape which allows one to travel over its surface for infinity, never needing to cross any edges, but allows one to travel its entire surface without crossing any boundaries or edges.

You can indeed make a Moebius Band look like the infinity symbol if you twist it right, and the theme fits -- you can travel it (like a circle) for infinity, but yet unlike a circle, you will have traveled the entire surface without having to stop and cross an edge. With a Circle, you can only travel the inner, or the other plane without going over the edge.

 

[kidwboro]

Here is another one for you.
Each atom has electrons, protons, neutrons. Some have only one each, others have several each. Count all of those and the number becomes even more infinite.

Maybe so, but paradoxically, a greater infinity is still the same as infinity.
In the same way, a fraction of infinity is smaller than the original infinity, but also equal to it.

Jesus says "My Father is greater than I."
But He also says "I and the Father are one."

Both statements are true only because God is infinite.

 

[Neogaia777]

I always took that symbol to be basically the same thing as a Moebius Band, a geometric shape which allows one to travel over its surface for infinity, never needing to cross any edges, but allows one to travel its entire surface without crossing any boundaries or edges.

You can indeed make a Moebius Band look like the infinity symbol if you twist it right, and the theme fits -- you can travel it (like a circle) for infinity, but yet unlike a circle, you will have traveled the entire surface without having to stop and cross an edge. With a Circle, you can only travel the inner, or the other plane without going over the edge.

Who was it, when asked to prove his worthiness as an artist, that drew a perfect circle freehand?

A circle can be a powerful statement, pi is said to be infinite, and we find a world of circles in the realm of the very large and the very small...

God Bless!

 

[MWood]

How far is the East from the West?
Can you ever reach the West if you continue to travel East?
Or, does the West continue to flee from you?
Is this infinity?
What if you are facing East and you are watching the Sun rise. If you do an about face you will look the West full in the face. Is this also infinity?

 

[looking4joy]

Infinity, in mathematics, can be described as series of numbers added together, implying there is a building of numbers adding together over an unending amount of time. For instance, 1+1+1+..... = infinity. There is always activity in the adding of numbers. In other words, there is life in the series that describes infinity. Infinity is seen with the eyes as finite things with life (activity), or eternal life. Dead is dead. Dead = finite by itself. Life = finite (earth, sky, body,...) AND continuous never ending activity, infinitely active.