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Lightning-Rod
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Hello. The word "infinity" often comes up in physics, but observational evidence seems to preclude any form of infinity whatsoever: either everything must be infinite, or nothing can be infinite.
My line of thought comes from the fact that the density of our universe is not infinite. Therefore, the mass of our universe cannot be infinite either. Then, the size of the universe cannot be infinite either, since it's been growing ever since the beginning of time and you can't grow from "infinite" to "more-than-infinite", can you?
Indeed, even numbers themselves would be finite: if you made each and every elementary particle in the universe represent one bit of information, there would still be an upper limit to the numbers that could be represented by such a computing system. Since no higher numbers could possibly exist in the universe, it effectively makes numbers finite.
Is my reasoning correct or flawed?
My line of thought comes from the fact that the density of our universe is not infinite. Therefore, the mass of our universe cannot be infinite either. Then, the size of the universe cannot be infinite either, since it's been growing ever since the beginning of time and you can't grow from "infinite" to "more-than-infinite", can you?
Indeed, even numbers themselves would be finite: if you made each and every elementary particle in the universe represent one bit of information, there would still be an upper limit to the numbers that could be represented by such a computing system. Since no higher numbers could possibly exist in the universe, it effectively makes numbers finite.
Is my reasoning correct or flawed?