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Well, since I'm good at contrarian nitpickiness, I'm going to argue that it can. Mass can increase forever in a black hole, and if you keep accelerating, you g
by prewett 10y ago
Well, since I'm good at contrarian nitpickiness, I'm going to argue that it can. Mass can increase forever in a black hole, and if you keep accelerating, you get heavier and heavier so that you can never actually reach the speed of light. I guess you could argue that black holes will eventually run out of matter, and you would run out of accelerant, though. Conductivity is infinite in super-conductors (i.e. resistance=0). I don't see any reason why energy has any limit to how much it can be concentrated. I think people have argued that irrational numbers like Pi contain all possible strings (that is, of the characters [0-9]), although you may have to look pretty far out. So that would mean that the digits of Pi have infinite information.
Writing this makes me think the world is a stranger place than I thought. I would have said that a physical quantity cannot go up forever, but I've talked myself out of that.
- fallingfrog 10y agook, so there are certain functions that keep rising forever but are still bounded above. So what I mean is that physical extensive quantities are all bounded above. Black holes will run out of matter, and there is only so much accelerant in the universe. Like you said. Conductivity is not an extensive physical quantity like mass or energy.