On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:23 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> >> 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.* > This entire thing started because I have a problem with a "finite" universe that was not only expanding faster than light but accelerating too, so I asked in what sense could such a universe be called "finite". You responded with, and I quote: "*It would take an infinite range of coordinate values to label all the points in an infinite universe, but not in a finite one."* If you're assuming that Real Numbers exist and that even a 1 cm universe would need a infinite number of labels then obviously your above answer is nonsense, so I ask my question again: *What is the difference between a "finite" universe that is expanding and accelerating and an infinite universe that is expanding and accelerating?* John K Clark -- 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/CAJPayv3bS3C7HTXYDbyoy-xNdPygsrRpLuqnNdDYhmZ%2BKdszGw%40mail.gmail.com.
