Infinity, Sets, and Causality

[Gurnsey]

Hi,
Well, Lem has already pretty well killed this thread.  And he is right -- discussing these topics without a firm basis in analysis is pretty well a waste of time.
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Er, discussing politics or religion without a firm basis in either is also a waste of time - but people do it, and can still get something out of it.

Writing a post like mine was an exercise to me of explaining something that I liked when I learned about it, that came up in another discussion. What it, of course, proves (and I realized this while writing it) was that I didn't understand it (or remember it) as well as I thought - there is nothing like trying to 'teach' something to someone else to get your brain moving on a subject.

While I understand that it may take years and years and a degree and whatnot to fully understand something, I bet something could be done to improve my analysis skills and make my post less a waste of time.

The original thought that sparked this and then I took waaaay to far was, is time infinite? bounded? if so, how, and how can we make a good example to show what this is like?

Sorry, but two of these posts have seemed too much like "sit down and shut up, little boy".

I wish I did something well enough to be considered an expert in it...I program computers, do some mechanical design, carpentry, can sail, write fiction occasionally (badly) and non-fiction (instruction manuals and research) a lot, can't really sketch but do some clay sculpting, I sew occaisionally, know how to fence well enough to teach beginners, am pretty good at creating and revising Standard Operating Procedures (relates pretty closely to programming, in the end), know enough math and physics to get in trouble (obviously), have a pretty solid grounding in electric and electronics theory and application, and about a billion other things...I'm hungry for knowledge and experience, if not for the classroom environment.

The list of things I do badly is pretty easy: I am the only person I know who can kill a fake plant :P