On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:10 AM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 5:46 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > *> It would take an infinite range of coordinate values to label all the >> points in an infinite universe, but not in a finite one.* > > > So you're saying in a finite universe you'd only need a finite number of > distinguishable labels for each point in space. OK I understand that, but > if new points are constantly being created in this "finite" universe, even > worse new points are being created at an accelerated rate in this "finite" > universe, then you're going to run out of labels for every point in this > "finite" universe if you only have a finite number of labels. > You seem to have missed an important little word in Brent's post: Brent talked about needing an infinite RANGE of coordinate values for an infinite universe -- nothing whatsoever about having only a finite set of distinguishable labels...... Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLQEu78s_i42K0ENYd6ktYw__eHS5gLeMEZx0zCSA%3DfaKQ%40mail.gmail.com.
