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From: FromTheRafters <FTR@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: 2N=E
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 05:29:07 -0400
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WM expressed precisely :
> On 01.11.2024 23:01, FromTheRafters wrote:
>> WM was thinking very hard :
>>> On 01.11.2024 19:43, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>>> WM presented the following explanation :
>>>>> On 01.11.2024 15:02, Jim Burns wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 'Infinity' does not mean what you want it to mean.
>>>>>
>>>>> Infinity can have two meanings.
>>>>
>>>> More than that, but in this context it simply means not finite.
>>>
>>> Is the elapsing time infinite?
>> 
>> Starting when?
>
> Irrelevant. Now or at the big bang.
>> 
>>> Is the number of real points in the interval (0, 1) infinite?
>> 
>> Uncountably so.
>> 
>>> Can you find the difference?
>> 
>> There is no difference up to isomorphism. If time is considered infinitely 
>> divisible
>
> Time is defined by its smallest unit, for instance a second.

In that case, time is only countably infinite.