What are your thoughts on this argument?
Infinity is a non-numerical value, that is symbolically represented on paper, or as trailing off on an imaginary horizon in one's conception of an infinite series.
It was Aquinas (was he the first?) who wrote about the possibility of a series proceeding to infinity, and the impossibility of the series becoming actually infinite.
All of this to consider the impossibility of an infinite number of planets in the universe, a future in which some computer program can generate an infinite number of numbers, or a past in which an infinite number of events have occurred.
Update: Many thanks for the great comments from all of you. It was a welcome learning experience. Through some real intense discussion, I now have a far better understanding of the way in which mathematicians claim one infinite set has more members than another infinite set. I still disagree, because if one set is truly infinite, then it is undefined with respect to the number of members in the set.
The lack of correspondence between an infinite set of natural numbers and an infinite set of real numbers, is interesting. About as interesting as considering these two infinite sets:
(<โขโขโขโขโขXโขโขโขโขโข>)
(X<โขโขโขโขโขโขโขโขโข>notX)
I should add that the former set has discrete members, and the latter does not.
Infinite set theory, as it seems to me, needs to recognize this fundamental difference while not positing the contradiction that states the number of members in an infinite set are definable.
The basis of this is simple: Batman's rogue's gallery- narrowed down to The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin, Two-Face, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn to keep things simple- all got on the train with the idea of committing a crime on-board like classic Jesse James-type criminals. However, while they expected to get on and find hapless passengers, they instead found themselves in a seemingly unending cycle of train-cars and strange puzzles to solve.
For those who don't know, Infinity Train is an animated anthology series about passengers on the train who have to get their number to zero by solving their own issues. While it may sound like it could be fairly simple to just break off, that's not exactly the case. Here's what we've seen of the outside: https://youtu.be/BaE9tRARN-s?t=113
For those who can't or don't want to view the clip, the outside of the train has been shown as an endless desert only inhabited by strange coach-like creatures intent on sucking out people's life-force.
There would be seemingly only two real options: the villains are trapped on the train forever- and with there being no time dilation, they could very well die there- or they end up having to solve their issues. Issues solved by passengers on the train so far have been self-esteem and dealing with radical changes (specifically the divorce of their parents), and we can say they can get far broader.
So, if any of them have a chance at this at all and aren't just all going to become murder-hobos trapped in this strange different world, who would have the best chance at getting off first?
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For example: is 10 closer to infinity than 1?
Numbers 14 through 605! We're in the end game now.
The preexisting mutants would of course be Charles and Eric, a handful of Charles's teachers and students and a handful of Eric's brotherhood. The emergence of more mutants means Charles must publicly come forward to open his school to the new gifted individuals and Eric seizes the opportunity to gain new followers.
As I said in a previous post, the snap itself could be a reason for normal people to fear those with extreme powers.
Mutants before snap with Powers:
X-Men
Charles Xavier, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Jean Grey, Angel, A few other students
Brotherhood of mutants
Magneto, Mystique, Mastermind, Toad, Gunther Bain, Blob, Pyro, A few other members
Nutral (to begin with)
Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Havok, Psylocke, Saber tooth, Deadpool, Various other older mutants
Mutants after exposure to the snap blast/return from being dusted:
Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Blink, Hundreds of other individuals
Edit: apologies for the spelling and grammar errors, it's 3AM and I have a newborn baby to feed.
Talking hypothetically of course. Is the chance for 17 to show up equals zero? But some number for sure must be the result?
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Personally, I have always found the Math Tea Argument to be perfectly reasonable. I may have even heard it mentioned by professors during a lecture at uni.
It seems there must be a real number which cannot be computed no matter how long a finite algorithm is looped or recursed, and I was perfectly comfortable with numbers like this existing somewhere in the set of all reals.
But is it reasonable?
Does the Math Tea Argument withstand scrutiny? What of in-computable numbers whose definition fits in a paragraph of english text?
The odds were against me.
Essentially, I am looking at a proof of an example problem and still do not understand how it was done because itโs just a line of math without any explanation and it looks like half the variables from the theorem were substituted with numbers but then it wasnโt explained why.
If you are looking at a limit f(z) with zโ> zknot and you know the limit goes to infinity and have to prove it, how would you do so?
but he brought his friends 3, 5, 7, and 9.
The odds were against me.
There is an infinite amount of numbers between 1 and 2. This includes every decimal, but since there is an infinite amount of numbers, there is an infinite amount of decimals. So when you counted from 1 to 2 you just counted an infinite amount of number between them. Trippy.
