If numbers are infinite, and they can get infinitely smaller, then how is it possible that we can touch anything? Wouldn’t the distance between my foot and the floor, for example, just keep getting infinitely smaller?

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If numbers are infinite, and they can get infinitely smaller, then how is it possible that we can touch anything? Wouldn’t the distance between my foot and the floor, for example, just keep getting infinitely smaller?

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Technically nothing ever touches anything the repulsive force between subatomic particles just equal the forces trying to push them together.

But I don’t think that’s the question here so in a more practical sense yes there can be infinitely many set steps to reach a goal but if the time for each step gets smaller you can do those infinite steps in a finite time.

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