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Old 12-31-2006, 09:36 PM   #247
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Default Re: Infinity * Zero = Any Number ARGUE HERE

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Originally Posted by darkdieuguerre View Post
Is it really? You do remember how gravity works, right? The more massive the object in question the stronger gravity pulls on it (or something like that, I'll have to look it up). So the bee, being relatively light, is not affected by gravity as much as humans are. Therefore, since the bee can generate enough force to overcome gravity, it can fly. However, we can't, since we are too heavy and too un-aerodynamic.
The earth does pull harder on heavier objects. Heavier objects also create larger gravitational fields.

It's not that we're un-aerodynamic >.> but we have no natural mechanism to create enough lift to overcome gravity.


I have no idea what this has to do with infinity though.

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technically im not a mathmatician, but an error is the following any number / infinity = zero

Technically dividing something by infinity makes something very small, but not zero

It is zero.

I guess to understand this, realize that in x/infinity, x has a bounded size and infinity does not. Because x is bounded and infinity is not, whatever is on top becomes meaningless; it's boundedness represents an infinitely small amount in comparison to something that is unbounded.

Infinitely small means; something is becoming smaller without any bound, therefore it cannot be anything other than 0. To say that something infinitely small has a measurable size that is very small is a contradiction; giving it such would bound the value, which contradicts the definition of infinity.

The exact same concept of boundedness is why infinity cannot be any number.
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