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Assuming an infinite amount of anything seems to be a good way to end up with a paradox.
by BoardsOfCanada 5y ago
Assuming an infinite amount of anything seems to be a good way to end up with a paradox.
- ravi-delia 5y agoTrue sometimes perhaps, but not in this case. There's really no "paradox", just an interesting observation. An infinitely old, infinitely large, non-expanding universe is incompatible with the stellar density we see. As it turns out, not only is our universe not infinitely old but it is expanding. So-called paradox resolved, a conclusion easily reached the minute it was formulated, which was of course the point.
- pazimzadeh 5y agoWhat about time?
- IntrepidWorm 5y agoOne cannot even assume time is infinite- there are theories postulating infinite time and finite time, as well as theories postulating that time may not really exist at all.
- ravi-delia 5y agoI mean yeah, but not in a "will cause contradiction" kind of way. You can totally think about infinite time without paradox, as well as infinite space, infinite most things really. You can also think about finite things obviously, if you're into that kind of thing.