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From: Bill Vajk on 7 Mar 2010 08:36

I dropped by sci.physics after some years absence to
find the following "wisdom" begging for a reply:

On 3/7/2010 6:20 AM, Don Stockbauer wrote:

> Let's all jump on the "Let's waste all the computer mammary we can -
> it's actually infinite now!" bandwidthwagon!!!!!!

How many stones do I have to remove from an infinitely
large arch before it collapses? Since it is infinitely
large, how long will it take for the arch to come apart?

Bear in mind that since it is infinitely large, every
segment, so far as the eye can see, appears to be in
a straight line. At what size does an apparently
infinitely large arch begin to measurably act as
though it is infinitely large, although it isn't
actually quite that big?

Everything, it seems, has a practical threshold,
including the internet, an entity that began to
appear to be infinitely large when a reader could
no longer ever capture all the information available
because it has outgrown the individual human's
capacity to keep up with the growth.

It must have been having a boring Saturday for me
to come back visiting. That will be resolved in
the next few minutes. Best to all who still read
here.
From: Don Stockbauer on 7 Mar 2010 12:46
On Mar 7, 7:35 am, Bill Vajk <bill.v...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I dropped by sci.physics after some years absence to
> find the following "wisdom" begging for a reply:
>
> On 3/7/2010 6:20 AM, Don Stockbauer wrote:
>
> > Let's all jump on the "Let's waste all the computer mammary we can -
> > it's actually infinite now!" bandwidthwagon!!!!!!
>
> How many stones do I have to remove from an infinitely
> large arch before it collapses? Since it is infinitely
> large, how long will it take for the arch to come apart?
>
> Bear in mind that since it is infinitely large, every
> segment, so far as the eye can see, appears to be in
> a straight line. At what size does an apparently
> infinitely large arch begin to measurably act as
> though it is infinitely large, although it isn't
> actually quite that big?
>
> Everything, it seems, has a practical threshold,
> including the internet, an entity that began to
> appear to be infinitely large when a reader could
> no longer ever capture all the information available
> because it has outgrown the individual human's
> capacity to keep up with the growth.
>
> It must have been having a boring Saturday for me
> to come back visiting. That will be resolved in
> the next few minutes. Best to all who still read
> here.

All that's pretty well answered by there are only 2 infinities: the
potential, an example of which would be a spacecraft that you instruct
to phone home daily in an infinite loop, although you know something
physical will terminate that at some point, and the actualized
infinity, which is a math concept and can't fit in the physical
universe.

Too bad you left before a dialog could get instantiated. But no big
deal, it's was just one of a nearly actualized infinity of dialogs
which never were.
From: Don Stockbauer on 8 Mar 2010 07:51
On Mar 7, 7:35 am, Bill Vajk <bill.v...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I dropped by sci.physics after some years absence to
> find the following "wisdom" begging for a reply:
>
> On 3/7/2010 6:20 AM, Don Stockbauer wrote:
>
> > Let's all jump on the "Let's waste all the computer mammary we can -
> > it's actually infinite now!" bandwidthwagon!!!!!!
>
> How many stones do I have to remove from an infinitely
> large arch before it collapses? Since it is infinitely
> large, how long will it take for the arch to come apart?
>
> Bear in mind that since it is infinitely large, every
> segment, so far as the eye can see, appears to be in
> a straight line. At what size does an apparently
> infinitely large arch begin to measurably act as
> though it is infinitely large, although it isn't
> actually quite that big?
>
> Everything, it seems, has a practical threshold,
> including the internet, an entity that began to
> appear to be infinitely large when a reader could
> no longer ever capture all the information available
> because it has outgrown the individual human's
> capacity to keep up with the growth.
>
> It must have been having a boring Saturday for me
> to come back visiting. That will be resolved in
> the next few minutes. Best to all who still read
> here.

I really miss you.
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