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Old 01-06-2014, 06:33 PM
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I was just thinking about this the other day while I was shaving. No particular reason other than I was bored, I guess. If I remember correctly, I read about this in a "Wall Street Journal" newspaper column several years ago. This scientist said if you have a line of infinite numbers it would be infinite even if you remove some of the numbers. I'm pretty sure I got that right.

So I was thinking: Anything that is infinite cannot have a beginning or an end. And, for example, you can't take half of something that is infinite, or any portion for that matter, like one tenth.

Are you with me so far? The next step, I figure, is to apply it to the human body. Every molecule, atom, or electron in our body has been in existence forever. It seems, therefore, we must be infinite.

Are you saying that you, yourself are infinite, or that the number of "things" (molecules, atoms, quarks, leptons, bosons, etc.) in your body is infinite?

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