how big is infinity ?

[Dr-Legend]

Watching programme on bc2 about a mathemetician called cantor who siad hed discovered how big infinity was.
So howbig is it?

[Dr-Legend]

Suppose you couldn't count to five. (Difficult to imagine, I admit � but then for each of us there was a time when this was actually true!)


Now look at your hands. If your were unable to count to five, how would you know there are the same number of fingers on each hand? You couldn't count the fingers on one hand, and then count the fingers on the other hand, to see that there were the same number of fingers on each, because you couldn't count that high. What could you do? The answer is simple: place the thumb of your right hand against the thumb of your left hand. Then place your index fingers together, and then all the other fingers, in a one-to-one match-up. When you are done, each finger of each hand is matched to the corresponding finger of the other hand, with none left over on either side. You still don't know how many fingers are on each hand, but you do know that they are the same number.

[ChuckFickens]

www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/infinity/index.asp

[Dr-Legend]

Ive read the part about sets

which does lower the numbers infinitely

[Lakitu]

LOL!!

I was just going to ask where you'd copied and pasted from!

[Dr-Legend]

i googled cantors name.

the bit about the universe being a spheer did get me thinking but now ive really got a headache .no wonder stoners lie in bed alll day



headache city



nice to see you to see you nice

[Dr-Legend]

see how many of them went mad or hung themselves?
jeez mathematics is dangerous.

[Ice.Maiden]

Can be damned difficult as well!!

[Dr-Legend]

Advanced mathematics like cantor and the others seems to drive folk schizophrenic then mad .

[Ice.Maiden]

I'm happy to think that I'll always be in command of whatever brainpower I have then - because I didn't get past ORDINARY maths, let alone advanced!!!

[Dr-Legend]

its got onto computers and is getting really deep

[Ice.Maiden]

Pants. I can't be bothered with mathmatical problems. I'll leave it to those who know what they're talking about - and miss the schizophrenia!!

[Drisgirl]

Not long enough for Johnny Rotten or who he is lol

And yet i thought that person only used names with his name in them -just goes to show ya -snigger.

[Dr-Legend]

Noone is really rotten , im sure they are indeed nice .
There are probably an infinite number of rotten peoppel as there are an infinite number who arent rotten.


NICE TO SEE YOU TO SEE YOU NICE

[Ice.Maiden]

Well the law of averages probably says you're right!

[Dr-Legend]

Welll the rotten on eposted a lot of abuse at me today and has done in the past.
But i was just nice to it and he decided there was nothing to be gained trying to annoy me as im nicer than nice and wont be made to be nasty even to the likes of him/her.


My niceness is infinite

[sp1214]

Infinity stops when there is no more space to enter the digits

[joggerjayne]

Infinity is ...

<-------------------------this big---------------------------------->

[dustypuss]

when I married Mrs dustypuss i didnt know what infinity meant

i do now

[AndiFlatland]

Think of it the Bob Newhart way:

If you got an infinite number of monkeys, and sat them down at an infinite number of typewriters, and got them typing away for an infinite amount of time, sooner or later, they would eventually come up with the entire works of Shakespeare.

Of course, you would have to employ an awful lot of staff to monitor what the monkeys were turning out. Here is a moment from one of the days of one of these monitors:

"Hey Bob, I think this guy's got something here...' (quotes) "'To be or not to be, that is the gzornenplan...'"

Infinitely funny, I think!