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Old November 2nd, 2003, 09:58 AM
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Default Re: Important Math Question

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Originally posted by Grandpa Kim:
[QB] Can't agree with you Phoenix-D. You are still underestimating infinity. In an infinite universe, there will be a star in every direction you care to point, in fact, an infinite number of them. Therefore, you are being bombarded by an infinite number of photons. True, each photon puts out an immeasurable amount of heat but that tiny amount is still there.
You need to seriously rethink your entire argument. Even if there is an infinite amount of energy in the universe, it still propagates at a finite speed. It will take an infinitely long time to travel from a source that is an infinite distance away, so we will never see that energy.
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