Powerball hits $450 Million

[Baruch]

Spooky, huh? Like action at a distance...

All force fields, like politics, are local.  Ripples in the underlying field, those propagate at some finite velocity.  In differential equations, you have the steady state solution (field) and the transient solution (wave) ... the sum of which is the solution.

[Baruch]

A few pretty good reasons to not play the lottery.. http://usuncut.com/news/5-reasons-why-the-lottery-is-a-massive-swindle-that-preys-on-the-poor/
The best reason to not play?  It's fixed and there's nothing you can do about it  other than not play.

The first lottery, was invented by that famous swindler, Casanova ... who created it to help King Louis of France gather more francs from the citizenry.

[josephpalazzo]

That is what I like about infinity. There's plenty to go around.

You can take two infinities, subtract them, and get a finite answer. It's called QFT...;-)

[stromboli]

You can take two infinities, subtract them, and get a finite answer. It's called QFT...;-)

Lol, the shit I learn on here.

[PopeyesPappy]

You can take two infinities, subtract them, and get a finite answer. It's called QFT...;-)

So if I won in an infinite number of realities and lost in an infinite number of realities and they cancel each other out does that mean I don't really exist?

[stromboli]

In an infinite number of realities I am a rich, handsome stud with many girl friends and every conceivable form of wealth. So why am I (me here and now) not that guy? Further proof god hates us?

[josephpalazzo]

So if I won in an infinite number of realities and lost in an infinite number of realities and they cancel each other out does that mean I don't really exist?

We don't really know what an infinite number means, so I'll pass on that...:-)

[Unbeliever]

And an infinite number of us were hit by a bus on the way to claim the prize.

Yeah, this multiverse stuff doesn't seem very useful, huh?

[Unbeliever]

In an infinite number of realities I am a rich, handsome stud with many girl friends and every conceivable form of wealth. So why am I (me here and now) not that guy? Further proof god hates us?

Since there are far more ways for you to be not-rich than there are for you to be rich, you're just shit out of luck, I guess. :)

[Unbeliever]

We don't really know what an infinite number means, so I'll pass on that...:-)

Actually, I think the phrase "infinite number" is an oxymoron, since no number is associated with infinity.

[Baruch]

Actually, I think the phrase "infinite number" is an oxymoron, since no number is associated with infinity.

"The cardinality of a finite set is a natural number: the number of elements in the set. The transfinite cardinal numbers describe the sizes of infinite sets."

The transfinite cardinal number equal to the set of all natural numbers ... is the smallest transfinite cardinal number.  There are an infinite number of transfinite cardinal numbers that are bigger than that one ... including "continuum" which is the cardinal number matching the set of all real numbers.

[SGOS]

"The cardinality of a finite set is a natural number: the number of elements in the set. The transfinite cardinal numbers describe the sizes of infinite sets."

The transfinite cardinal number equal to the set of all natural numbers ... is the smallest transfinite cardinal number.  There are an infinite number of transfinite cardinal numbers that are bigger than that one ... including "continuum" which is the cardinal number matching the set of all real numbers.

That's exactly what I keep telling these guys.

[josephpalazzo]

Actually, I think the phrase "infinite number" is an oxymoron, since no number is associated with infinity.

You're lucky Cantor is already dead...

[Baruch]

You're lucky Cantor is already dead...

Studying infinity drove Cantor insane ;-(

[josephpalazzo]

That's a myth:

The objections to Cantor's work were occasionally fierce: Henri Poincaré referred to his ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics, and Leopold Kronecker's public opposition and personal attacks included describing Cantor as a "scientific charlatan", a "renegade" and a "corrupter of youth." Kronecker objected to Cantor's proofs that the algebraic numbers are countable, and that the transcendental numbers are uncountable, results now included in a standard mathematics curriculum. Writing decades after Cantor's death, Wittgenstein lamented that mathematics is "ridden through and through with the pernicious idioms of set theory," which he dismissed as "utter nonsense" that is "laughable" and "wrong". Cantor's recurring bouts of depression from 1884 to the end of his life have been blamed on the hostile attitude of many of his contemporaries, though some have explained these episodes as probable manifestations of a bipolar disorder.

The harsh criticism has been matched by later accolades. In 1904, the Royal Society awarded Cantor its Sylvester Medal, the highest honor it can confer for work in mathematics. David Hilbert defended it from its critics by declaring: "No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor