How would you define infinity?

Question

One would say infinity is not definable. Other would mathematically prove that infinity exists.
My own opinion is that infinity is the proof that the human mind is deliberately limited by, let's call it "an entity", very likely the same entity which created the human kind (call it God if you wish).
How's that? I'll give you some help by making an analogy: imagine a top car which is able to reach speeds around 300km per hour; for security reasons however, that car is electronicaly limited at 240km/h by the manufacturer.
Well, in a similar way, our mind is able to recognize the existance of infinity however it cannot understand its essence. So here's the hint: our brain's potential is far higher than one can imagine but someone (or something) purposely set up a limitation on it.
What do you think?

Answer 1

Infinity by its very nature is undefinable because it goes on forever.

Answer 2

Infinityy does not have an ending. Infinit lines have no ends. It can not start at a point, because you may create the possibility to increase. That is not logical. Infinity can not grow. So when you shall give us a model, let the ends pass both sides of the sheet of paper. The same logic may be used on volumes. This creates a problem in the discussion of the space. Some talks of its infinity, and some tell it is increasing very fast. Therefore there is still room outside and may be we can not say the space is infinite. Can we talk about several infinities? What is the sum?

Answer 3

Quite right.
We are indeed limited by design. Our higher senses and levels of awareness have been progressively controlled over many centuries.
Church, Politics, Media, Education, Culture etc etc are vehicles of mind control.
Those in high office are well aware of the infinite power of the vehicles they drive and very capable of fine tuning a ' top-car' far beyond its 300km maximum.
Albeit, Even those who excell at the most highest levels of intellectual genius recognise the limitations you refer to.
They also recognise that infinitity is relative beyond finite.
The ordinary person requires finite boundries to operate within.
To define your question IS a limitation

Answer 4

The word infinity comes from the Latin infinitas or "unboundedness." It refers to several distinct concepts (usually linked to the idea of "without end" or "bigger than the biggest thing you can think of") which arise in philosophy, mathematics, theology and everyday life.

In popular usage, infinity is usually thought of as something like "the largest possible number" or "the furthest possible distance" : hence naive questions such as "what is the next number after infinity?" or "if you travel to infinity, what happens if you then go a bit further?". However, Buzz Lightyear's rallying cry ("To infinity — and beyond!"), since it is clearly meant by the filmmakers to be part of Buzz's grandiose delusions and humourously reflect Buzz's limited intellect, actually implies that at least some members of the audience will realise that the concept of "beyond infinity" is ridiculous. However, Buzz's slogan may also be viewed as the rallying cry of set theorists considering large cardinals.1

In mathematics, "infinity" is often used in contexts where it is treated as if it were a number (i.e., it counts or measures things : "an infinite number of terms") but it is clearly a very different type of "number" than the integers or reals. Infinity is relevant to, or the subject matter of, limits, aleph numbers, classes in set theory, Dedekind-infinite sets, large cardinals, Russell's paradox, hyperreal numbers, projective geometry, extended real numbers and the absolute Infinite.

In philosophy, infinity can be attributed to space and time, as for instance in Kant's first antinomy. In both theology and philosophy, infinity is explored in articles such as the Ultimate, the Absolute, God, and Zeno's paradoxes. In Greek philosophy, for example in Anaximander, 'the Boundless' is the origin of all that is. He took the beginning or first principle to be an endless, unlimited primordial mass (apeiron). In Judeo-Christian theology, for example in the work of theologians such as Duns Scotus, the infinite nature of God invokes a sense of being without constraint, rather than a sense of being unlimited in quantity.

In a Photographic context, infinity is used as the furtherest point that a lens can resolve focusing of the subject. This is not exactly true though, as some lens are designed to focus past infinity. These are usually more specialized types of equipment, as now most modern lens types are only designed to focus to infinity. Lenses designed to focus past infinity are mostly used in the scientific field, as these lenses can focus light from the far end of the spectrum beyond visible sight i.e. infra-red. This light travels at a different wave length to visible light, and as such needs to be focused differently to what we can see with the human eye. Generally these types of lenses will either have a marking on the lens barrel next to the focusing ring, with a red dot or marked with the initials IR, denoting the Infra-Red setting.

Answer 5

Infinity is God.

Answer 6

infinity is all posibility including the imposibility. It's like a dot, which from the dot, you can draw a straight line or a curvy or even a spiral, or even a letter, the words, the sentence, and etc.
And also you can draw nothing from it, leaving it as a dot as it is.

Answer 7

what tells me that if I told you that gods power or life or wisdom was infinate you would all of a sudden understand the meaning of the word

Answer 8

If you really think about it you can get a good grasp of infinity, but it makes you feel really lonely and scared.

Answer 9

the very reason to look inward, because outward would be ...um...infinite.

Answer 10

no end