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Everyone knows the tapered paper bags you can buy cherries in.
The "Theory of the Isentropic World"
mentions an infinite number of tennis balls that cannot be destroyed unless you are omnipotent, i.e., you are capable of destroying all the tennis balls at once.
Where could you fit so many tennis balls in our world?
You could imagine an infinitely large conical bag that tapers to a point at the bottom and contains the tennis balls.
However, if you look at such a bag from the top on Earth, the opening would fill the entire sky. The opening would be infinitely large. Now you have a dilemma.
If my "line of sight"* is flatter than the wall of the bag, it will never reach the bag.
This leads to the conclusion that infinity is just a point**, as seen from Earth.
* For Dummies: Direction of View
**The
"sinc sphere" offers a solution.
Ludwig Resch
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