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You could think of approaching this result by dividing 1 by an ever smaller and smaller number and the result is getting bigger and bigger, with no end in sight
by okket 8y ago
You could think of approaching this result by dividing 1 by an ever smaller and smaller number and the result is getting bigger and bigger, with no end in sight, as you can always come up with a smaller number, never reaching 0.
There are several places in physics where you encounter infinities, the most prominent case probably is the aforementioned uncertainty principle, which leads to 'loops' in QED and need to be countered by renormalization[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization
- gowld 8y agoYou could say that is impossible to start from something finite and completely destroy it to 0, and this analogous to the impossibility of creating infinite pieces. But another option is that there is simply nothing to start with.