Our minds? Infinity isn’t something we don’t understand - we invented the concept of infinity. The mathematics community agreed on its definition, which includes the fact that infinity is not a real number, it literally does not exist. Show me infinity, I’ll give you infinity+1.
You deciding that infinity means something else is not a math problem but a language problem, so if being right about this is that important to you, start a petition or something
doctorn@r.nf 9 months ago
So you believe the universe just ends somewhere with nothing behind it?
0ops@lemm.ee 9 months ago
What’s that got to do with anything? Infinity is just shorthand for “ever-increasing number”.
doctorn@r.nf 9 months ago
Uhm… No it’s not… 🤨
0ops@lemm.ee 9 months ago
First sentence from Wikipedia: “Infinity is something which is boundless, endless, or larger than any natural number.”
In other terms give me a natural number n, I’ll show you a larger number, n+1, and I’ll do it again and again. That’s the definition of infinity. There’s always a bigger number.