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by vitehozonage 1116 days ago
Yeah, I stopped reading when i got to that sentence
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Infinity and singularity are mathematical constructs. They look great on paper, but we don't know if they have actual physical analogs. It could be that relativity and the physics around black holes, the big bang, etc. are wrong.
> Infinity and singularity are mathematical...

THIS. That I've seen, the [astro]physicists are confident that there are no actual physical infinities nor singularities. With the public, they'll use those terms for situations "approaching" infinities and singularities. But in private, they're busy using all sorts of clever mathematics and calculations and arguments to avoid having any infinity or singularity occur, even on paper.

A very basic example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function#Motivatio...

Are you saying that we have evidence that universe is not infinite?
Could be true that there is nothing with infinite density. But it is certainly not known with certainty, so the statement is horribly wrong.

>It could be that relativity and the physics around black holes, the big bang, etc. are wrong.

Of course, that's almost certain