Is infinity more than 6000?

[bogeyman]

Hmmm not sure I agree. If the universe is finite - what's on the "other side" - where it ends?

Nout, nothing, not a sausage, bugger all.

There is no 'other side'. The universe is a bubble. Outside the bubble there is neither space, nor time.

Of course, this could all be completely wrong, but that's more or less the current consensus, is it not?

[NickFitz]

if we had a finite number of monkeys typing away - would they come up with a Shakespeare play ?

Some work has been done towards resolving this important question

The results may be found in Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare (PDF, 2.8MB)

[EternalOptimist]

Some work has been done towards resolving this important question

The results may be found in Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare (PDF, 2.8MB)

well, I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

ok, according to your evidence
I can out-write a chimp and out-write a monkey
but I can also out-w ank a bonobo outright

[bogeyman]

Some work has been done towards resolving this important question

The results may be found in Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare (PDF, 2.8MB)

I think they went wrong when they though of using monkeys.

Mice are pretty clever, but the practicalities of making small-enough typewriters knocked that idea on the head.

Cats could probably do it. My neighbour's cat used to write a column for the Observer when he wasn't crapping in my flowerbeds.

[EternalOptimist]

I think they went wrong when they though of using monkeys.

Mice are pretty clever, but the practicalities of making small-enough typewriters knocked that idea on the head.

Cats could probably do it. My neighbour's cat used to write a column for the Observer when he wasn't crapping in my flowerbeds.

I think for the last ten years, I have been reading your flowerbeds

[bogeyman]

I think for the last ten years, I have been reading your flowerbeds

Yes, the Observer is not the journalistic force that it was - and this is not entirely down to the employment of cats to fill the column inches.

[_V_]

I believe that a recent theoretical paper on infinity said it was equal to exactly 6000.

[TimberWolf]

I believe that a recent theoretical paper on infinity said it was equal to exactly 6000.

There is zero probability that infinity equals 6000. Although that doesn't mean it can't be true.

[swamp]

There is zero probability that infinity equals 6000. Although that doesn't mean it can't be true.

Maybe we don't need any numbers bigger than 6000. Why would you need more than 6000 of 'anything', if anything is large enough?

[TimberWolf]

Maybe we don't need any numbers bigger than 6000. Why would you need more than 6000 of 'anything', if anything is large enough?

Or just one of anything? The whole universe being just one particle that does the whole lot.