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by subroutine 2888 days ago
What aspect of waves as they exist in our universe is infinite?
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If waves are continuous then they are over the real numbers, and there are an infinite number of reals between any two points.
This is specifically addressed in the article - this is a function how our maths represent phenomena:

"Physicists have found it convenient to use the concept as a mathematical idealization where infinity occurs as a limit of large numbers, even though in physical reality there is no infinity of anything. An example is the Fourier series: while mathematically an infinite number of terms are needed to give an exact representation of the function representing an arbitrary waveform, this does not in fact mean that there are infinite physical frequencies occurring in the real physical system."