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    Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
    Isn't infinity infinitely big? If so, how can anything be larger?
    Decimal numbers (.123) have a larger infinity than counting numbers (1,2,3) apparrently.

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    Somewhere out there in the universe right now is a monkey typing the complete works of Shakespeare...

    Hotel Infinity

    Imagine a hotel with an infinite number of rooms all occupied, is there room for me? Yes room 1 moves to room 2, room 2 to room 3 and so on, therefore freeing up room 1 for me and due to the number of rooms being infinite there's always another room to move someone along into.

    What if i turn up with an infinite number of friends aswell as myself, is there room for us all? Yes, all the existing guests move to the odd rooms of which there are an infinite number, freeing up the infinite number of even rooms for me and my friends.

    My maths tutor at college used to say maths is exciting but i disagree, maths is absoultely hilarious...now where in the universe is that monkey butler with my hot chocolate?

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    Wouldn't have missed last night's episode on the cosmos for all the world, although i was a bit skeptical about all the guesswork surrounding the recent proposal of the existence of Dark Flow, and that our universe is one of many. It's easier to get your head round than quantum mechanics though, supposedly this just means there was more than one big bang assuming a single bang gives rise to one universe. Programs like this really open your mind and make you realise just how small we all are.

    I was also beginning to consider the prospect that religions might step forward and claim that Dark Matter proves that god is present, and that Dark Energy is god fiddling around or 'moving in mysterious ways' as they like to say.

    Enjoyed the new series on the solar system too, i'm actually a bit afraid of the sun now!

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    Re: Last night's Horizon

    just remember you cant actually prove anything exists outside of your own mind

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    Margarine exists outside of my mind.
    (But not for long after spilling the beans on my unscheduled HPM stops).

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    Quote Originally Posted by fellboy View Post
    just remember you cant actually prove anything exists outside of your own mind
    and if you thin it exists within your mind you could be day dreaming...

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    Quote Originally Posted by fellboy View Post
    just remember you cant actually prove anything exists outside of your own mind
    I'm not going to let that comment influence me, since I don't know whether you're real or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mr brightside View Post
    Decimal numbers (.123) have a larger infinity than counting numbers (1,2,3) apparrently.
    Indeed, there are more irrational numbers than there are integers (infinitely more, in fact). There's the same number of prime numbers as integers though, and it's quite easy to prove.

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    Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
    I'm not going to let that comment influence me, since I don't know whether you're real or not.
    Is a bit of blind faith too much to ask?

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    Re: Last night's Horizon

    Not too impressed with the way the new series has kicked off . Where's Prof Cox with the latest on CERN's Large Hadron Collider, and how's the search for water on Gliese 581c going?

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