Infinity

People tell me that infinity leads on forever to expand but not to
shrink. If u grow smaller then eventually you will be nothing. That
can't be true because negative numbers lead on forever into infinity.
Infinity has to have two sides, doesn't it?

"Sitav" wrote in message
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People tell me that infinity leads on forever to expand but
not to
shrink. If u grow smaller then eventually you will be nothing.
That can't be true because negative numbers lead on forever
into infinity.
Infinity has to have two sides, doesn't it?

You are confusing moving from +infinity to -infinity with
shrinking
to zero. Zero means nothing. -Infinity means opposite
+Infinity.
In a tug of war to groups of men pull a rope. If you had
five
men on each side one group pulls in the plus direction and
the
other in the minus direction. If there are no men then you
have ZERO pulling. If there are infinite men on each side
you
have -infinity pullers and + infinity pullers. Of course you
better have an infinitely strong rope.
--
Rick Evans
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Lon -71° 04' 35.3"
Lat +42° 11' 06.7"

INFINITY and BEYOND: Last act "2001: A Space oddity"



There are an infinite number of points along a line... the interval
between two points can be infinitely small. There an infinite number
of negative integers on a number line.

-Sam