Totally OT: Quantum Mechanics proof for the existence of a Supreme Conciousness?

[Jb]

"boyd" <gaboonviper at gmx.net> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:06:52 +0100, Bill Baxter 
> <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote:
>
>> Jb wrote:
>>> "Yigal Chripun" <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:fp2gtu$qcp$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> Jb wrote:
>>>>> "Craig Black" <cblack at ara.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:fp2cu3$hcc$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep.  That's generally a good approach to science.  However, 
>>>>>> considering
>>>>>> how much ground has been covered by science in recent times, I have 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> hope that ultimately science will be able to answer philosophical
>>>>>> questions too. Being a curious person, it would be nice to have a
>>>>>> definitive answer to the big questions.
>>>>>>
>>>>> As soon as science provides an answer it stops being a philosophical
>>>>> question. ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> But tbh, you just have to accept that some stuff is and always will be
>>>>> beyond our understanding.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the universe infinate or finite?
>>>>>
>>>>> Either answer is utterly perplexing and uncomprehendable. Anyone who 
>>>>> claims
>>>>> otherwise doesnt understand the question.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why does anything exist at all? Why is there not just nothing?
>>>>>
>>>>> Again what possible answer could there be that makes any sense to a 
>>>>> human?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> well, actually the universe is finite. there is a lot of evidence that
>>>> our universe is expanding (big bang and all) and thus it must be finite
>>>> (according to math).
>>>  Why cant somthing infinite expand?
>>
>> "Ours goes up to infinity plus one.  It's one louder." - Nigel Tufnel
>>
>> But you're right I don't think theres any pure math that says "infinite" 
>> implies "cannot expand" -- consider the mapping of the real numbers to 
>> the real numbers:
>>     x <- 2*x
>>
>> Infinite? Yes.
>> Expanding? Yes.
>>
>> So probably the OP left out a few details.  :-)
>>
>> --bb
>>
>
> Actually infinite means exactly that it can't expand. That's the whole 
> point of infinity. It's not a number, not a real one anyway, because a 
> real number is always smaller than infinite.

But to get back to the point regarding the Universe, space can be infinite 
and the galaxys finite. So a finite collection of galaxys can expand into 
infinite space even if the infinite space itself couldn't expand.