[FOM] Feasible and Utterable Numbers

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 V.Sazonov at csc.liv.ac.uk wrote:

> Quoting Apostolos Syropoulos <apostolo at ocean1.ee.duth.gr> Mon, 07 Aug 2006:
>
> Now, plese transform this decimal number into the unary form or in the
> form of SSS...S0. Then you will be really the first one.

I have tried to make a point with my little Perl code: a number
exists if one can represent it in some way. The Perl code as well as
the program's output are <i>representations</i> of a number just
like the SSSS..SS0 are representation of some numbers. Whether a number 
corresponds to some natural quantity, this is an entrirely different 
issue, which cannot be settled since our knowledge of the world is far 
from being complete.

Now, as far it regards the "feasibility" of 2^1000, if the
many-worlds theory (see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/)
is correct, then clearly 2^1000 is a really small number. Apart, from
this do you believe that the universe is indeed bounded, limited?
And if it is bounded, limited, what exactly lies outside its
boundaries, limits?

All the best,

Apostolos


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