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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]...and an infinite number of imaginary pink bunnies can exist too, but in the real world, there is no way to physically represent it. Infinity itself is as abstract and imaginary as 'zero', or a two-dimensional object (such as a circle). A rainbow may appear to be a perfect circle, but that is only as you perceive it - one imperceptible photon out of place and your crude human eye may still perceive what appears to be a perfect curve, but it's still a bombardment of the retina with a finite (though stonkingly vast) number of photons.[/quote] That is unfortunately incorrect - for in RL we do have things like trajectories. And given that a curve can have an infinitie number of points, it can therefore also have an infinite number of trajectories. It is also true that a sine wave is infinite (and this also holds true in RL). Also, do not consider the photon to be the smallest thing in existence - to be honest, we do not know if there is such a thing as the smallest thing in existence. We only know about those things that we can currently observe or postulate about. I would consider a point to be the smallest thing in existence - it has no dimensions. And since one can select a point (for example, when doing a trajectory), therefore I would call such the smallest thing in existence. Though, of course, a point has never been seen, measured, nor has it been quantified in RL as such. Still, it is a term that we use to describe an exact place (well, as exact as the math, that is) and it is defined. [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/397/]WebShaman[/url] \| [i]The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. - Sophocles[/i] Loading...
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