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   M. Vice Pres commandasaurus 🦖 (amcasari@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:15:36 JST M. Vice Pres commandasaurus 🦖

   Watching a documentary about infinity last night, my partner and I discovered some fascinating, fundamental differences in how we both see the universe.

   His physics-based approach on what is measurable and eventual can be absolutely terrifying tbh.

   My mathematics brain expands "what is possible beyond what is countable". I leave room for the infinities between infinities, seeing them as hope and future discoveries.

   #brains #math #physics

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:15:34 JST phiofx

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     @amcasari our inability to grasp "infinities between infinities" is likely why it has been quite a while we did not have any major further leap in our understanding of the universe...

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     M. Vice Pres commandasaurus 🦖 (amcasari@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:46:40 JST M. Vice Pres commandasaurus 🦖

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     • phiofx

     @phiofx I still remember the first time I walked through the proof for how irrational numbers are uncountable. As someone in a field obsessed with discretization and countability, I love that some numbers are utterly defiant.