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auyeungyat

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Registered: 2013-09-23

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The Infinity Problem

I got stuck in thinking the infinity.
I thought like this:
Let infinity be x

2x=2 infinity
The main problem is:There isn't 2 times infinity!
How can it be proven?

Last edited by auyeungyat (2013-09-23 02:04:58)

bobbym

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Re: The Infinity Problem

Hi;

Welcome to the forum.

I think most of that was established by Cantor and the mathematicians that followed. For one thing infinity is not a number, it is a concept. The rules of arithmetic do not apply.

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Re: The Infinity Problem

I got stuck in thinking the infinity.
I thought like this:
Let infinity be x

2x=2 infinity
The main problem is:There isn't 2 times infinity!
How can it be proven?

infinity is like /dev/null
Whatever you write or add to it it still remains /dev/null

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