Is infinity actually real? This guy seems to think it doesn

I though infinity was just a concept it's not something thats actually real outside of math

>>8696088
Theoretically time is infinite since it seems like the universe is just going to keep stretching out forever

>>8696094

Sure but

Until it actually happens there has and presumably always will be a finite amount of time that has occurred.

I get what your saying about how it could be infinite if it just keeps on going, but even if thats true at all points of time time has occured for a finite period.

>>8696110
That's Aristotle's theory. He separated the 'potentially infinite' from the 'actual infinite', just like you are, where the universe has the potential to be infinite but will always be actually infinite since at any point on the timeline it must have existed for a finite amount of time. Apparently this is a false distinction though because you need to view time as a whole and not as an uncompleted process. The future isn't some nebulous thing that might happen, it HAS happened and is just as fixed as the past and present.

it's not real but it's not meaningless, for without infinity we would not have functions and all of calculus.

you know what that means?

it means bye bye to your computer and the software running on it, which means bye bye to your anime and waifus as they wouldn't be created without them.

1 plus 1 equals 2 isn't actually real

Its just a tool we created to show that if you have an apple then you get a second apple you now have 2 apples

Infinity isn't real but we can use it to do neat things

>>8696117
Your computer is not producing an analytical answer to calculus questions. Open up a book on numerical analysis and see how your computer actually does math. It's all based, ultimately, on boolean logic.

>>8696159
boolean logic is what the digital system uses, but the algorithms needed to do shit like bezier curves rely on limits. you can't do numerical analysis without it as a base.

>>8696230
yes u can rofl

>>8696290
>rofl

ah i see you're a brainlet. my bad carry on.

>>8696095
brainlet here, explain

>>8696082

The only thing that matters in math is useful results

Infinity gives us useful results

when we use countable infinity to describe the rational numbers and uncountable infinity to describe the real numbers it gives us useful results

when you use negative and positive infinity to describe left and right limits of y=1/x at x=0 it gives us useful results