cyan923 Dec 2005

The british coastline appears to be of finite length, get a tape measure; however when you start looking at every rock, and measuring around every rock the length of the coastline rapidly expands, as it does the more and more detail you look at it, thus if it were possible to look in infinite detail the coastline would be of infinite length, thus as you look further and further into the detail, you come closer and closer to the conclusion that it is inifinite. Applying the same principle to time, it depends on how much detail you want to look at it, and whether you believe that discrete time intervals exist. You could come to the conclusion that time is infinite even if you knew that the end of the world was tommorrow, based on your scientific belief and acceptance of differing theorums. Personally I believe that there are minimum size particles, and discrete time intervals, yielding finite lengths of time and coastline.
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