Re: TIB: Re: Fw: Ponder These
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Re: TIB: Re: Fw: Ponder These
> oo - oo = oo
>
> So, once you'd traveled at an infinite velocity for *any* nonzero amount of
> time, you'd be stuck at an infinite distance from your original position.
> There'd be no way to get back to a finite distance from your original
> position, in a finite amount of time, without different technology.
I considered this. We can assume that the distance is not infinant
though. Let's say that a working extrapolation of infinity is A*x+B
where x will be used instead of oo. Obviously, without the
substitution of x for oo, the values of A and B are unknown and
meaningless. I ingored powers because this problem has no use
for powers and, therefore, the power of infinity must be 1.
Here is my work:
distance = velocity * time
oo = oo * 1
Using my "A*x+B", A is 1 and B is 0.
Let's not use distance but instead keep it in my "A*x+B" equation
whose values I got from distance = velocity * time.
The equation showing the reverse course would be
-oo = -oo * 1
Still keeping it in the x equation (so we can be sure that the
value of A is one),
(1 * x + 0) + (1 * -x + 0) = 0. This states that you would be back where
you started. This is all obviously hyppothetical and I have no real
mathematical proof. But I don't think a proof would be possible.
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