Bobby Linton
Banned
Couldn't we test the premise? Say, how long does it take for the first 1000 digits of Pi to repeat in order? That's got to be easier than an infinite number of chances producing another me.
Ok, pi is a good example of my original question. If a number can be classified as a non repeating, non terminating decimal, why would infinity imply every situation must repeat?
Couldn't we test the premise? Say, how long does it take for the first 1000 digits of Pi to repeat in order? That's got to be easier than an infinite number of chances producing another me.
I am not telling you what you don't know Ambush. It is not that the finitude of the circumference of a circle is reliant upon an infinitely progressive number for description...but it does so (in this case) only as it relates to another particular number assigned to the radius. And someone did/does that assigning. Find a way of perfectly figuring half, 1/4, 1/16 or even a 1/9xxxxxx (as long as it's finite) of the length of an arc of a circle...and I'll come to your award ceremony. Till then, the closest we yet have is that Pi thing relative to the radius. We seem to like neat...and tidy fits.
Light really doesn't travel at 186xxx miles per second, it only does so in description as one of an infinite number of other descriptors assignable. If we forgo the measurement of mile, light travels at 1/31622400 of a light year/second. But that measurement gets unwieldy when trying to describe how far the gas station is from my house. It's about 1/5.8817664e+12 (whatever that number is!) of a light year from my door.
Then we get into the whole time thing, anyway. If we monkey with time (like calling two seconds...one second) or whatever other permutation we would care to come up with, then of course, that all changes too, in description. But, regardless, light does what it does. And circles, their circumferences and areas...even relative to the thing we have assigned as radius.
A utility assigned in one place does not easily equate to utility in all. Maybe the framer can get away with a tape that only marks every 16 inches...but the guy designing the reactor...not so much. Like I said, it's not as if you don't know this.
Ok, pi is a good example of my original question. If a number can be classified as a non repeating, non terminating decimal, why would infinity imply every situation must repeat?
I was only asking about pi repeating as a simple thought experiment about infinite return.
"The concept of "eternal recurrence", the idea that with infinite time and a finite number of events, events will recur again and again infinitely, is central to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche"
I know it blurs the line of physic and philosophy, but I think we learn by learning how to think.