"This is Math not Science" - 12:45 A lot of that vid was over my head, but during it I couldn't help but think how much like Philosophy Math is (or vice versa). His final summation is interesting regarding concepts that perhaps apply outside the physical realm, that is similar to some ideas I've had in regards to other concepts and I do find it a truly fascinating quirk of human thought.
i didn't watch the video, but i think every elementary school student is familiar with the concept of "infinity plus 1."
I don't think there's a math forum, but math fits right into science (and engineering etc) The meaning of "philosophy" has changed over the centuries. Philosophy at one point referred to mathematics and many philosophers were also mathematicians. It's hard to comprehend that the universe could be infinite; or an infinitesimally small point of a singularity, but it seems that as a species we have transcended the confines of the perceivably finite world in which we evolved. Things may not be how they appear as discriminated using the very limited physical senses that we possess. According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Universe -- some information to help you live in it. 1 AREA: Infinite The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite." Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. 2 IMPORTS: None. It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from. 3 EXPORTS: None. See Imports. 4 POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all of the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. 5 MONETARY UNITS: None. In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but non of them count. The Altairian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Trigantic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but sine a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not a negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this the basic premise is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination. 6 ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough -- see point one. 7 SEX: None. Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, art or anything else that might keep all the nonexistent people of the Universe occupied. However, it s not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now because it really is terribly complicated. For further information see Guide Chapters seven, nine, ten, eleven, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one to eighty-four inclusive, and in fact most of the rest of the Guide. Not sure the above is totally mathematically sound, but certainly humorous.
