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The universe is infinite... but there are a finite number of inhabited worlds... any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no difference... therefore no one exists....

You're throwing around huge theoretical ideas like they are set values.

it means that there are a minute amount of people per unit of space

but in an infinte space, there must be an infite amount of people

but inifinity divided by infinity must equal 1, and we know the population isn't spread out that way, so ALL of this is wrong

I know... I just posted this in a vain attempt to attract the attention of Philosophicus and get him arguing about something pointless...... I was trying to take the heat off the rest of you guys....

There is nothing wrong with Philosophicus's arguement... it's just his bad habit which he likes to draw people to anger...

so we don't exist, fine with me

well no, it doesn't.... since we DO exist, as proven by the fact the product isn't 0

when you devide something by infinity the result is very close to zero

but it's not 0, therefore SOMETHING must exist

matrix

it is not the spoon that bends.... youpi

but your mind

You stole that from Douglas Afdams, I hate you

But The Universe ain't infinite

You know, I thought so..

I was about to say the same... The universe is not infinite, it only seems that way, since if we traveled close to the edge of it we would find space-time "bending" so that it would be impossible to get to the "end" of the universe. Or something.

you thought what?

oh no... I've accidentally started a thread.....

I'll let you tell them the universe's biggest imports and exports....

excuse me? accidentaly?

this is always happening to me.... I try to play Space Invaders, and end up on a totally different site talking bo**o**s.....

i'm bo..something?

no... not you.... talking bo**ocks.... its the English way of saying bs.....

bollocks

The easiest way to kick that one over is to try and count the number of UNinhabited worlds instead, as we know only a finite number of THEM exist as well. Therefore by the same logic, there are no uninhabited worlds.

As most leading philosophers would say, it was a load of dingo's kidneys...

This is a simple argument that has been finalized quite some time ago - the shape of the universe.

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/ContentMedia/990006s.jpg
The density of the universe also determines its geometry. If the density of the universe exceeds the critical density, then the geometry of space is closed and positively curved like the surface of a sphere. This implies that initially parallel photon paths converge slowly, eventually cross, and return back to their starting point (if the universe lasts long enough). If the density of the universe is less than the critical density, then the geometry of space is open, negatively curved like the surface of a saddle. If the density of the universe exactly equals the critical density, then the geometry of the universe is flat like a sheet of paper. Thus, there is a direct link between the geometry of the universe and its fate.

i understand NO single word of what you have just said
translation plz?

I'm just talking about the shape of the universe - people are blabbling on about how it is infinite - it IS infinitie IN A SENSE, but not fully.

tx

How do you divide by something that isn't a number?

I shall:


Imports: None: It is impossible to import things imto an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from.

Exports: None: See Imports

You tell 'em aboot sex.

the universe is NOT infinite.

What comes after universe?

my sister is doing a-level phisics at skewl and she throughs stuff like this at me all the time it makes my head hurt

universe group.
then omniverse
then multiverse
then megaverse

well...your first two statements are not proven.
if one was to assume the universe is infinite, why would there not be an infinite number of inhabitated worlds?
or the exact opposite.

and...even if for the sake of argument we would consider the universe infinite and the inhabitated worlds not infinite in number.
by dividing the two..you'd only get the size of the enhabitated worlds compared to the size of the univarse.....a weird form of percentage...
solved by mathematical limits. it goes for 0....which is logical

no finite things of unequal length can exist within an infinite amount of that thing.

Goddammit, this is a joke. Its from a book, a good one too.

Thank you Bardock!!! At least someone got it.... although it is funny watching all these guys argue about it....

well it's the philosophy forum