On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 12:51 AM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *> That seems to entail other problems. 1/3 of infinity is the same size > as infinity.* > That's one reason I suspect that space-time is discrete, not continuous. But even if it's not all hope may not be lost, after all in quantum electrodynamics at least, Richard Feynman found a way to get infinities to cancel out so he could perform calculations and get finite answers that turn out to be correct. Some mathematicians complain that Feynman's method is not rigorous enough and so might contain inconsistencies, but we know for a fact that it works and I just don't believe that quantum electrodynamics is inherently paradoxical. Unfortunately Feynman's method doesn't work if the strong force is involved, nor does it work with gravity when things get very small and very dense, but maybe someday we will find something like it that will allow us to deal with infinities more generally. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> ixe -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2naNMf0%3D4m_dCvFOo7HkFLH%2B98-CUXi%2BgcO%3DC2%3DhdTUA%40mail.gmail.com.
