Re: How can anything be infinitely small?

From	"Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: How can anything be infinitely small?
Date	2018-10-04 21:35 -0700
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On 10/4/2018 6:53 PM, Sergio wrote:
> On 10/4/2018 6:24 PM, Double-A wrote:
>> On Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 2:52:20 PM UTC-7, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>> On 10/4/2018 2:13 PM, Double-A wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 10:50:21 AM UTC-7, Sergio wrote:
>>>>> On 10/4/2018 12:31 PM, mitchrae3323@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> On Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 1:53:31 PM UTC-7, alal...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>> I was watching a quality documentary on the Big Bang.  Somebody mentioned that the universe was infinitely small.  Can anything be smaller than Planck length?  I also don’t like the use of the word, infinity, used to describe something real.  While there may be infinities or infinitesimals in theory, I do not think anything real can be as such in practise.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Abhinav Lal
>>>>>>> Writer & Investor
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> “Imagination is more important than knowledge”
>>>>>>> - Albert Einstein
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It makes continuity... sizes of infinity of the
>>>>>> infinitely small.
>>>>>> Particles are quantized at the infinitely small...
>>>>>> Spatial temporal points are as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mitchell Raemsch
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> infinitely small means it is smaller than whatever you can come up with,
>>>>> it is smaller than that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unless it is nothing, at least that is something.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you had a ton of infinitely small particles, how could you weigh it ?
>>>>>
>>>>> how would you know where they are ?  there are no tags on them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      if you could not find it, would it matter ? or is that what is expected ?
>>>>>
>>>>> SO, you are talking about a bunch of nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> best not to watch documentaries on science as most are produced by
>>>>> non-scientists and know nothing about science or math.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But the sure do know how to make things sound dramatic!
>>>
>>> Just a thought experiment in a land far, far away. ;^)
>>>
>>> Think of an entity A and object B that exist forever.
>>> ______________________________
>>> 0: A is always observing B.
>>>
>>> 1: B gets _physically_ smaller, say by 1/2.
>>>
>>> 2: A zooms in on B until it is just as _visually_ large as it was before.
>>>
>>> 3: Goto step 1.
>>> ______________________________
>>>
>>> B can get infinitely small, however as A keeps zooming in, B will
>>> continually be _visually_ just as big as it was when we started in step 0.
>>
>>
>> Your point is?
>>
>> Double-A
>>
> 
> his point is very very small.

Actually, it only works in fantasy land. One would need a microscope 
with an infinite zoom.

> 
> actually "vision" degrades with smallness, microscope is about 1000x
> magnification, electron microscope 1,000,000, then special ways like
> mapping charge,  then thermal noise dominates as atoms move around.
> a long way from infinity small, in fact an infinity

"Just a thought experiment in a land far, far away. ;^)"

Was meant to show this is not in reality. Sorry.

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How can anything be infinitely small? alal65536@gmail.com - 2018-10-03 13:53 -0700
  Re: How can anything be infinitely small? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-10-04 10:31 -0700
    Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-10-04 12:50 -0500
      Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-04 14:13 -0700
        Re: How can anything be infinitely small? "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-10-04 14:52 -0700
          Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-04 16:24 -0700
            Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-10-04 20:53 -0500
              Re: How can anything be infinitely small? "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-10-04 21:35 -0700
            Re: How can anything be infinitely small? "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-10-04 21:42 -0700
      Re: How can anything be infinitely small? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-10-04 18:44 -0700
        Re: How can anything be infinitely small? "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-10-05 21:32 -0700
          Re: How can anything be infinitely small? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-10-05 22:50 -0700
            Re: How can anything be infinitely small? "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-10-05 23:14 -0700
    Re: How can anything be infinitely small? poraty149@gmail.com - 2018-10-04 20:37 -0700
    Re: How can anything be infinitely small? "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 12:43 -0700
  Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2018-10-05 12:14 +1000
    Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 09:05 -0700
      Re: How can anything be infinitely small? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 17:00 -0400
        Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-10-08 07:37 -0700
          Re: How can anything be infinitely small? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-08 11:57 -0400
  Re:How can anything be infinitely small? Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-10-05 08:39 +0200
    Re:How can anything be infinitely small? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 07:01 -0700
      Re:How can anything be infinitely small? Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-10-05 16:39 +0200
        Re:How can anything be infinitely small? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 07:52 -0700
          Re:How can anything be infinitely small? Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-10-05 17:02 +0200
            Re: How can anything be infinitely small? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 11:22 -0400
              Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-10-05 18:41 +0200
                Re: How can anything be infinitely small? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 17:11 -0400
        Re: How can anything be infinitely small? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 11:16 -0400
          Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 09:12 -0700
          Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-10-05 18:43 +0200
            Re: How can anything be infinitely small? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 17:14 -0400
        Re: How can anything be infinitely small? poraty149@gmail.com - 2018-10-05 23:20 -0700
          Re: How can anything be infinitely small? "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-10-10 13:05 -0700
            Re: How can anything be infinitely small? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-10-10 20:13 -0700
              Re: How can anything be infinitely small? "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-10-10 20:14 -0700
                Re: How can anything be infinitely small? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-10 23:53 -0400
  Re: How can anything be infinitely small? Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 08:59 -0700
    Re: How can anything be infinitely small? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 16:48 -0400

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