Religion and Ethics Forum
Religion and Ethics Discussion => Philosophy, in all its guises. => Topic started by: Walt Zingmatilder on August 05, 2025, 09:26:33 AM
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Article over whether infinities exist even in mathematics.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-if-infinity-didnt-exist/
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[Nicolas Gisin] hopes that a finite world of numbers could describe our universe better than current modern mathematics. He bases his considerations on the idea that space and time can only contain a limited amount of information. Accordingly, it makes no sense to calculate with infinitely long or infinitely large numbers because there is no room for them in the universe.
This effort has not yet progressed far.
I'm really not surprised. Physics would be much harder if, for example, you can't take a square root and π doesn't exist. Consider, for example the formula for the period ofd a pendulum T = 2π√(l/g) Without mathematical infinities, that is doubly verboten.