Re: Another Inconvenient Truth

Han de Bruijn wrote:
I've never said that the vase has
infinitely many balls at noon. I don't even know what infinity
actually is. (Potentially is another matter ..)


David R Tribble wrote:
Well, I guess that's your problem then. Why bother
arguing over a question about infinity when you don't
even have any idea of what it is?


Han de Bruijn wrote:
I have an idea of what it is in standard mathematics (I can even handle
it, otherwise I would never have passed my university exams) but I have
no idea of what this mathematical notion has to do with the real world.

No one ever said it did. It's an abstract problem.


Han de Bruijn wrote:
The problem with the Balls in a Vase question is that it's a perversion
of TIME. As if TIME can proceed, irrespective of what someone is doing.
Every modern physicist knows that such cannot be the case. The Universe
would have been exploded (or rather imploded) before the vase is filled
(or emptied) "at noon".

Again, what does an abstract mathematical problem have
to do with physical reality? No one ever claimed that.

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