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Originally Posted by bryantm3
that is the most moronic thing i've ever read. that doesn't mean the coastline of britain is infinite, it means it can't be measured precisely. infinite means that it goes on forever, which it obviously doesn't. what the heck is your point anyway?
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I admit it is counterintuitive, but yes the measurement of the perimiter goes on forever.
It is the area of britain that is finite.
The point is, there are anomolies when you consider entities of a greater dimension than those that define them.
Area => finite dim(2) , Perimiter => infinite dim(1)
Our "being" occupies the three dimensions (x,y,z) and our experience spans the fourth, (t)
Might there be a being that occupies all four dimensions with an experience that spans an unfathomable fifth???
When you account for the work of Benoit Mandelbrot (fractal geometry), Kurt Gödel (number theory), Albert Einstein (relativity) and the numerous contributors to the field of Quantum Physics, one can only determine that material reason will fall short when contemplating a 'God.'
One either closes their mind and say's "Nope! Not going to do consider it! Material Reason is the end all, be all" or they open their mind and pursue other means of contemplating 'God'.
The first will always draw the same conclusion - no God.
The second will always draw the same conclusion - God.
Each with an equal degree of certainty.