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Old 07-30-2010, 04:28 AM   #14 (permalink)
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I think I see what you're saying, right? Zoom in to a yard of a particular portion of coastline... then down to an inch... now further to a centimeter... go further down to an atom of one particular grain of sand comprising the coast line. Keep going past the Neutron. Quarks. Further in, theoretical probabilities. Space between space between space. Theoretically, you could go forever into the space between space. It could never be accurately measured.
Yeah that's what I'm saying. I agree that it could never be measured but I disagree with the term infinite because the coastline does end, but the EXACT measurement just isn't discernible by any means we have. But, if you use that logic for a coastline then really isn't the measurement of everything on the planet "infinite?" Replace 'every strand of hair and skin cell' with 'grain of sand' in that paragraph and you have an argument for why a person's height is "infinite".
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