07-29-2010, 05:17 PM
(07-17-2010, 09:47 PM)unity100 Wrote: Actually, it doesnt even need contemplation - for anything to be infinite, it has to be infinite in all regards, aspects, concepts, dimensions, inside, outside, at all points and inwards, outwards ....... just keep adding adjectives and prepositions.
Interesting discussion! I believe I understand how you are approaching the term Infinity, unity. Of course by the very definition of the word "infinity" implies that there are no limitations whatsoever, in any way. However Ali and Monica have made the points well that things can have particular characteristics which are infinite. This doesn't mean that whatever is being described then becomes the definition of "infinity", just that one aspect of it is. There is no contradiction there so far as I can see.
For example, physicists consider the gravity at the singularity of a black hole to have infinite gravity. (That this is true or false lets not discuss here but assume it is true for the sake of example). Now then, we know the black hole has boundaries where it's size is concerned, that is from one end to the other. We know it also is finite in the amount of Hawking radiation it sends out. But even though it is finite in those ways, it is still infinite where gravity is concerned.
A straight two dimensional line could again be infinite as far as it's X and Z axis' are concerned, but be limited in it's Y axis. We have never discovered such a line floating out in space of course, these are all thought experiments.
And again we could have an infinite number of kittens, but despite their infinite numbers they will never take on the qualities of a puppy. Unless I suppose if you had enough kittens to match the number of atoms a puppy has, and arranged them in to the right configuration and gave the kitten array second density consciousness, then it could make a puppy. I jest- but since the universe is infinite, surely something like that must exist, no?