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I understand the idea behind this, but I always felt that it was a flawed concept.
Maybe my understanding of complex math is limited…but I’m gonna keep pretending I’m smarter than everyone while I enjoy life in my delusional kingdom.
Also this reminds me of the question “can god create a boulder so big that he can’t lift it?”
The concept of infinity is to mathematicians as god is to Christians.
EDIT: the above two statements were the jokey part of my answer, I thought it would be obvious but I guess not. ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ
Infinity is effectively just bullshit.
I'm fond of pointing out to my students that there's a very practical reason to care about "infinity" in math:
While nothing ever reaches "infinity", things absolutely do reach a point where they violently fly to pieces and catch on fire.
So I teach my students to substitute the phrase "explodes and catches on fire" where they see an equation that "approaches infinity".
I find it helps them pay attention to a subject that is otherwise bullshit. Infinity itself is bullshit, but it has a place in math: telling us when to quickly duck behind a good solid oak table.
I bet you are a great teacher.
Oh, and Ensign? Tea. Earl Grey, hot.