Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: 2N=E Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 10:24:07 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <40b398d1-40c5-45e9-8615-1cf437af0185@att.net> <3537899e-e951-4138-b56c-fc76340762b8@att.net> <8b31df46-1361-4dd1-aed3-1f42039af960@att.net> <84c1bb5d-67db-4d21-918a-f86cd1f815c5@att.net> <725d3aed-1de6-48e9-97a4-fe861ce58a6f@att.net> <470a5a63-4d1d-402d-bbc8-b5fc8ea299c1@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 10:24:08 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2f7bdf3e653733b4727fe893b0085bd6"; logging-data="3929351"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18jqN4uoUSXwHgInJGWtK1CgXK57jVw/z4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:liH0mGb0opwDddFFcIWXuuOwNEY= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2723 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. Regards, WM