On 1/23/2020 3:09 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 5:46 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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/> 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.
I carefully wrote "/*range */of coordinate values". I'm assuming a
continuum spacetime. So even a 1cm interval takes an infinite
/*number*/ of labels.
Brent
John K Clark
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