Thomas: Want to go pick up our photos? I think it’s been eight minutes. It feels like it’s been eight minutes.
The Fiancee: We’re in Wal Mart. It might just feel like it’s been eight minutes, but it’s really been like thirty seconds.
Thomas: Like some sort of hell dimension.
The Fiancee: Would it really matter if time moved more slowly in a hell dimension? I mean, eternity is eternity.
Thomas: Yeah, but you can have more eternity.
The Fiancee: That’s… stupid.
Thomas: No, it’s totally real. Like, there’s an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1, and there are infinite numbers between 0 and 100, but there are more numbers between 0 and 100, because it includes all of the numbers between 0 and 1, and more.
The Fiancee: …Math is also stupid.
But there’s… not infinite numbers between 0 and 1? Since there’s a start point and an end point?
Math IS stupid.
I stand by my position that there is no such thing as “more infinity”. Art makes so much more sense than math.
It’s like when the geometry teacher makes you “prove” that a triangle is, in fact, a triangle. Is there something wrong with his optic nerve? Can he not SEE the three sides and the three angles?
Math is the devil.
<3 The Fiancee
Dear Dayna:
I like you. Have I told you that?
<3 The Fiancee
Dayna: decimal points. 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, et cetera ad infinitum.
Yes dear.
<3 The Fiancee
Math is a horrible subject! I agree with The Fiancee’s triangle comment (still bitter that my math teacher sent me to summer school for not trying to understand proofs). Doing anything at Walmart can feel like you’re trapped in a hellish eternity. I know this is not the point of the argument, but why don’t you upload your pictures directly to their website, order online, and pick them up later? On a lighter note- yay for True Blood season 4 on Sunday!!!
Dear Beth,
I was going to do upload the photos to the website, but my office is VERY strict about their No Personal Internet Usage policy, and I was impatient :)
And yeah, I’m excited.
-The Fiancee
/agree with the fiancee haha
I’ll never understand people (those not mathematically challanged) who clame math is beautiful, ordered and doesn’t lie. Math is confusing, literally proves impossible things and it makes my head hurt. But it IS fascinating, I have to concede that. And infinity is a truly scary concept. In any context. And, yeah, what’s up with those triangles? Seriously?
Aw! mutual admiration society with The Fiancee powers activate!
But even if you keep going with the decimal points, your just dividing the finite numbers into tinier and tinier pieces, it’s not truly infinite…
Ugh. Not only is math stupid, it leads into whole philosophical debates and shit. >:-P
Lol! I like math and Thomas, I like your argument. It makes (1) No sense whatsoever that there can be “more” infinity and yet (2) Your argument still makes sense. Perfect irony. I love it.
I still remember my 11th grade math teacher complaining about the class she was taking on degrees of infinity. In fact, that’s all I can remember from that class – two minutes of complaining about the only interesting things that ever came out of her mouth.
Thanks Fiancee, still laughing hysterically at the triangles bit, lol, yes those dumb math teachers were all blind and minions of some math devil…my head still hurts from 10th grade geometry, lol. Math is evil, indeed :)
Uh-oh. Sorry, been playing a lot of music lately. I’m right-brain-dominant today.
Have to side with the wimminfolk on this one, Jefe.
On a line graph, you can divide and subdivide the space between zero and one into an infinite number of subdivisions, but the space between zero and one is finite.
On a related subject, who exactly changed the definition of the word ‘medium,’ which I’ve always understood to represent ‘a point between two extremes.’
Oh yeah? Try to order a combo meal “small” from Speakergirl. She’ll earn every cent of her $8/hr arguing that they don’t HAVE a “small,” they only have medium, large and extra large (super-size or biggie-size – depending on the flavor of cholesterol and saturated fat you prefer). “Medium,” according to my trusty Funk and Wagnalls, can NOT, itself, BE the extreme (i.e. the smallest size drink and fries).(/rant)
Try discussing the infinity concept with a young child….
My first grader: Mommy, what’s the highest number?
Me: Well, conceptually speaking you might say “infinity”, but the real answer is that there is no such thing as a “highest number” because anything can get bigger. Infinity may seem like as high as you can go, but if you add one to it then you have “infinity plus one” which is a bigger number.
1st grader: So, “infinity plus one” is the highest number?
Me: No, because you can add one to that and have “infinity plus 2″. See?
1st grader: So, “infinity plus 2″ is the highest number.
Me: Um, no. Why don’t you let me explain the birds and the bees and we’ll tackle this when you’re older.
Brian – re: stupid names for serving sizes: same thing at Starbucks where the smallest size is “tall” and the other sizes are not in English. Come on already fast food places, just say small, medium, large. Or better yet, dispense with the ambiguity and say 8 ounces, 12 ounces, whatever.
Well, for once, I’m with Thomas and not the Fiancée, there. Maths is not the devil, it just gets plain awesome when it doesn’t make any intuitive sense anymore. It just opens up the doors of imagination. Geeky much? Maybe :-).