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  1. I wonder if I'm the only objectivist in Australia.... (Ayn Rand is an unknown name here. Except amongst the intellectual elite... who hate her.) Some personal details: 17 years old Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Grade 12, going to uni next year (probably to do engineering) Interests: philosophy, mathematics, debating
  2. A quantized value is something that can exist only in specific quantities. For example, electric charge. The fundamental unit for electric charge is that on an electron; every charge is merely a whole number of electron charges. (The charges dealt with in daily life are so large that electrical charge appears to be a continuous variable). Time is not a discrete/quanitized value. Neither is distance. Now this is where I am confused... Take two points, A and B, that exist in space a certain distance apart (say, 1 metre, although that's completely arbitrary). No matter what their distance apart, there will always exist an infinite number of points between A and B. Thus, for an object at A to move to B, it must pass through an infinite number of points before it can ever reach B... But infinity, by definition, is beyond measurement. Thus, how can the object at A ever reach B? (Since it has to pass through an immesurable amount of points) Similarly, take two instants in time; t=0 and t=1 (second). There is an infinite number of instants between t=0 and t=1, therefore how can time ever "reach" t=1? I think the solution to these problems is associated with "space-time" which is generally considered to be another dimension. Somebody enlighten me.
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