Are points real or are they just a mathematical description?
>>16794375Consider a sphere. Made up of infinite points. Every point has zero dimensions.POOF! The sphere vanishes!Its magic!
I've yet to see anyone on this board have a point.
>>16794375Get a PhD then acquire funding to build a point detector.
>>16794375>are physical calculations realobviously libtard
>>16794375Just a mathematical description., else we'd have uncountably many of these things (experiments suggest space is not discrete), which seems unreasonable.
>>16794375Depends on your take on the uncertainty principle. Volume is an emergent property of force interactions and doesn't really exist at the subatomic level, all fundamental particles are "point" particles
>>16794788We do have uncountably many things. In order to count everything, you would have to use up all possible space to store the counter, but then if all possible space is used up to express the count, then there is nothing to count except 1 counter.
>>16794936show me 1 thing thats uncountable
>>16794963Can you count how many blue the sky is?
>>16794963my love for you, anon
>>16794375Points do not exist.Become of THE ONE TRUE FINITE FAITH.
>>16794968yeah just count the photons >>16795061always finite
>>16794968There's one, retard.
>>16794388What? None of my spheres have points. It's more of a curved plane
>>16794963the interior components of an atom, as we cannot see what is inside an atom, only speculate
>>16795232>a point ain't finiteman you are retarded
>>16794375Could be a (ring) singularity.Could be a vibrating string.Could be that all mass is directly at the edge of the event horizon.
>>16794936Are you the one who thinks mathematical infinities can't exist as a concept because it's impossible to count to infinity?
>>16795478That isn't how color works, though.How many photons are in blue?>>16795485You are likely color blind if you think there is only one shade of blue and that the entire sky is always the same shade.
>>16795807No, I think infinity can only exist as a concept since it can't be counted to infinity and isn't actually a number but a limit.
>>16794375real.
>>16795837>isn't actually a number but a limit.1/0=∞, where the limit at?
>>16795847∞*0 = 1?
>>16795847The mathematical limit in that case is at the ability to coherently define division by 0.
>>16794375mathematical description, nothing in existence converged into anything, it's all just one perpetual algorithm my friend
