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Quote by: ZNFYRH  "finity" isn't a word.
What you're asking is, "How many times does something finite go into something finite?" which can be answered. |
Rules of lexicography are arbitrary. Whether or not "finity" is formally recognized by x number of lexicographers is irrelevent, so long as the term I use is logically consistent. And that argument does not change the fact that it makes no sense to ask, "what is INF/INF?" Just to set everything straight, I wasn't asking how many times "something finite" goes into something else finite... I was asking how many times the quality of being finite goes into the quality of being finite. That's what you are asking when you ask what INF/INF is. If that question still makes sense to you, answer it.
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Energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed, only converted.
Regardless, you missed the point... people who insist that something can't be destroyed (turned to nothing) somehow think there is a way to divide X (something) until it is nothing (0).
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Here's a secret: matter is highly excited energy. When you "convert" matter to energy, it ceases to be matter. Remember, if matter exists at all, it is just a configuration of energy. It's a term that describes how energy behaves. Thus, when something of that configuration ceases to exist, you have destroyed the configuration, and thusly destroyed matter.
But anyway, I didn't miss the point. Matter's ability/inability to be destroyed is not entirely applicable to this topic, because matter cannot be infinitely divided. And "matter cannot be destroyed" is not the same as "something cannot be destroyed."