Some people say there is no end to space and time. If something is without end, how do we know?
ps. endless nagging from the missus don't count!
2006-09-26 13:47:21 · 16 answers · asked by Polo 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Or endless nagging from the mister?
There are plenty of multi dimensional shapes that are "endless".
The donut (called a torus) is another example.
A Mobius Strip is another.
People who say there is no end of space or time have no idea what they are talking about. The next time someone lays that pithy idea on you ask them to prove it. The problem is that there is no way to demonstrate the idea one way or another.
The only way you could "know" that something was "endless", however that was defined, would be if you could observe it outside of its "endlessness", whatever that means.
These sorts of problems are giving some theoritical mathematical physcists a real fit. They are no closer to the truth than you are. And the religious nuts who claim they have the absolute truth are so dumb they don't have a clue what they are talking about.
2006-09-26 13:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a subset of the area of mathematics called Topology. A few clarifications
The mobius strip with a pi spiral applied is a 2D object that gives a 3D visualisation of infinity symbol. It actually only has oneside and one edge.
The next evelotion dimetionally is the Klein bottle is not a true container as the inside is connected to the outside, with one surface.
The funny step pictures: Stair Well (Trappenhuis) - MC Escher, 1951
2006-09-30 13:15:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Endless only means we have not been there yet, or if we have we cannot get back to tell anyone about it. Heavy at 0-50
2006-09-26 13:51:58 · answer #3 · answered by guzzler 1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mobius strip
the surface of a klein bottle
infinity is endless - the number line extends to infinity and perhaps even to -infinity
2006-09-26 13:49:11 · answer #4 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eternity is endless. Infinity is not. Infinity = 0 Eternity = > Try to wrap your head around that.
2006-09-26 15:50:51 · answer #5 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mathematically, only a line is endless. It starts in one point in space and keeps going.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_%28mathematics%29
2006-09-26 13:55:48 · answer #6 · answered by booktender 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love, according to Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross.
2006-09-26 13:53:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a mobius strip. I always loved them because they were something endless made out of a normal object.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip
2006-09-26 14:15:47 · answer #8 · answered by the_fitz_pos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A moebius strip, the stairway in the M.C. Escher painting, the pain in my legs, a day at my desk when I had to sit next to the most talkative woman in the world.....
2006-09-26 13:56:45 · answer #9 · answered by tattooed.dragon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mobius strip
maybe light... we can see stars, so their light has already travelled x many quadrillions of miles..so what constitues endless..
einstein theorises that a beam of light, will eventually return to its point of origin... just no one says how long we have to wait for it to get there.. (Or get back)
2006-09-26 14:17:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋