*Flair may be wrong*
In: Mathematics
Imagine a rubber duck. Just plain, yellow, and with that little rubber duck smile.
Imagine another one, but wearing a little tie. Imagine another one, with a different color tie. Then a bunch more, with just different color ties.
It’ll be hard to come up with much more than just a crayon box worth of colors.
Now imagine another with just a little baseball hat. Imagine more with all of the diiferent colors we had for ties. Then imagine more with team logos, team logos in the wrong colors, company logos in the right and wrong colors…
Now you just have hundreds of ducks in mind, right?
That’s very far from infinity, and hard to keep track of.
You might be able to remember the duck with the green hat with orange shark carrying a machine gun logo, wearing the blue and green striped bow tie , but what are the ducks next to it? Did you also imagine orange ducks, or ducks with pink beaks, or ducks holding things?
Imagine all of those infinite permutations of rubber ducks? Now imagine them all with feet. Whoa! Double infinity! Now imagine them all in rubber boots, sneakers, sandals, and clogs. Ten times infinity! Imagine all of the permutations of colors for thosemshoes, and the legs, and one shoe off, and different combinations mixed and matched.
Now imagine all of those ducks as little rubber alligators…more infinity…
The permutations become mind boggling. You stop remembering them, and instead create them on queue. Because we can’t conceptualize so many things. You could surely think of an infinite number of things, given enough time, but you’d forget about some of the older ones after a while.
Dealing with infinity, or just very large or small numbers, as concepts is manageable, but truly envisioning an infinite thing is really not possible.
Edit: cleaned typo
Latest Answers