superfinguy

Hello everyone I am new to this forum and I am glad to find an objectivist forum. I am an electronics technician by trade and also a scientist in my spare time. I am pretty in agreement with almost all of Ayn Rand's philosophy but I have to disagree with what is considered the objectivist stand on infinity and other areas of mathematics and science. For instance, I think there is a disregard of the fact that true concepts are not only abstractions or representations in one's mind but indeed are reflections and representations of relationships in reality. Here is where I think the concept of infinity comes in as an actual principle of reality as physical, logical and geometrical necessity shows. Can you please define what you mean by universe? I assume you mean all of the matter in existence? If that is the case then time does apply to the universe since when speaking of the universe's operation (not it's identification) every object, form or motion must have a history that extends infinitely into the past. So I would say that an infinite amount of time has passed in the universe. There are other actual infinite series in reality I can think of but that is beyond the scope of this reply.