untermensche

You would need infinite matter to have infinite eggs.

There is a problem.

ShavenYak

Assuming that you will accept merely egg-shaped agglomerations of matter, and not necessarily actual eggs composed of protein molecules and such, I do not need infinite matter to have infinite eggs. If egg 1 has a mass of one kg and egg 2 has a mass of 1/2 kg, and egg 3 has a mass of 1/4 kg.... and egg n has a mass of 1/2^(n-1) kg, then the whole infinite series of eggs will have a total mass of 2 kg.

Unfortunately, before we even get to eight dozen eggs, they'll each be less massive than a proton, and you'll just have to take my word for it that they are egg shaped, and we won't even be able to say with certainty where they are or how fast they're moving, thanks to quantum mechanics.

untermensche

An egg cannot be created in the lab. It must be laid. To have infinite eggs would require either infinite chickens or infinite time to lay them.

Sarpedon

Can we please stop talking about the eggs and keep it on the mathmatical topic?

ughaibu

One chicken laying eggs as a supertask.

untermensche

My point is that you can only talk about infinity as an abstract mathematical concept.

When you try to talk about it as a realized quantity in the real world you drift into absurdity.

untermensche

Where would we get this chicken?

ughaibu

All chickens will become such under reversal of thermodynamics and at the approach of the "big crunch".

untermensche

Chickens as a species will exist then?

ughaibu

Supertasked egg laying is exactly what will save the universe and prove it's infinitude.