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This is a somewhat glib but forty orders of magnitude, being a finite number, has no more to do with infinity that any other finite number. The nature of infini
by dullcrisp 4y ago
This is a somewhat glib but forty orders of magnitude, being a finite number, has no more to do with infinity that any other finite number. The nature of infinity is that you can’t get meaningfully closer to it.
- mcphage 4y ago> The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly > Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. > > It wasn't infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. > Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is > incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into > which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very > very big, so that it gave the impression of infinity far better than > infinity itself.
- kmtrowbr 4y agoThis is from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. They're with Slartibartfast driving onto the factory floor for creating planets. Slartibartfast, as you recall, is a famous "world designer" who won an award for designing the Fjords of Norway.
- chinaman425 4y ago[dead]
- bigbillheck 4y agoDepends on how you measure, for example what about the stereographic projection of the plane into the sphere and then use the metric in R3? Distance from a point in the plane to infinity is then the distance from where it maps to in the sphere to the north pole.