Re: Cantor and the binary tree

In article <85y89sqq34.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Virgil <ITSnetNOTcom#virgil@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > In article <1117743153.673576.235420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > mueckenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> Of course it is so. If you have infinitely many meters, then this
> >> makes up an infinite distance.
> >
> > There are points in this universe arbitrarily far apart, unless it
> > should transpire that this universe is finite, but there are no two
> > points in this universe that are infinitely far apart.
>
> Please refrain from tying this into physics, an empiric science.
> Mathematics is not democratic: reality does not have voting rights on
> it.

Point taken.
.

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