Infinity Of Some Concept Or Attribute Essay Example
Infinity Of Some Concept Or Attribute Essay Example

Infinity Of Some Concept Or Attribute Essay Example

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  • Pages: 2 (500 words)
  • Published: November 6, 2018
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Rulers are examples of how we might commonly use a number line. Different rulers mark off different distances such as yards, feet, inches, centimeters, millimeters, and so on. Obviously rulers cannot be used to measure all distances because some distances may be too small to be measured practically with the naked eye. Hypothetically speaking, let's say you had a worm and a razor blade. Let's also hypothesize that this particular worm is two inches long. Now if you were to cut this worm exactly in half you should have "two worms" each one inch long.

Okay, so now we know worms are an infinite number of points long. Skyscrapers are also an infinite number of points long. Therefore, worms are as tall as skyscrapers. Skyscrapers as tall as worms. Because everything has an infinite number of points and is in

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finitely divisible, then everything must be equal in length (width, height, etc.).

How is this possible? Simple. The universe isn't made up of many different things, it's just one singular object. Okay, let's consider another point. You might think it's reasonable to believe that you walked across the room and sat down in the chair in front of your computer, yet, as I will explain momentarily, such a notion is ludicrous because motion is an illusion. If motion is an illusion then clearly the universe is not made up of many different objects (e.g. a chair, a battleship, a moon) but rather the universe is one large singular object.

When you see someone walk across a basketball court you tend to think you are observing motion. But what are you really observing? This person appears to be traversing from

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point A to point B across the court.

Let's say that it takes this person 15 seconds to appear to move from point A to point B. If this is the case, then the person is traveling through an infinite number of points in a finite amount of time because the line the person walks from point A to point B can be represented as a number line (and we know that number lines contain an infinite number of points). Because infinity implies no end, it's impossible for anything to travel hrough an infinite number of points in a finite (limited) amount of time. Therefore any apparent motion is actually an illusion.

The reason this person cannot move across the basketball court is because the assumption that many things exist also assumes that everything is divisible and therefore the distance that any thing must move is divisible into an infinite number of points. And if, then, a person moving across a basketball court can never reach any point without first reaching its previous midpoint, and if there are an infinite number of points, it is impossible to traverse this infinite number of points in a finite amount of time. Motion, then, is an illusion and there is only one being, continuous, material, and motionless.

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