What do you mean by this? Do you just mean that it doesn’t make any sense for something infinite to actually exist, or do you mean that set theory, which claims the existence of an infinite set as an axiom, is inconsistent?
6: Venus is hot due to volcanoes
Why? It seems to me that it would be obvious if the standard theory that Venus gets most of its heat from the sun was wrong, since we can easily see how much it absorbs and emits and look at the difference. Besides which, you’d need expertise to have a reasonable chance of coming up with the correct explanation on your own. Do you have relevant expertise?
What do you mean by this? Do you just mean that it doesn’t make any sense for something infinite to actually exist, or do you mean that set theory, which claims the existence of an infinite set as an axiom, is inconsistent?
Why? It seems to me that it would be obvious if the standard theory that Venus gets most of its heat from the sun was wrong, since we can easily see how much it absorbs and emits and look at the difference. Besides which, you’d need expertise to have a reasonable chance of coming up with the correct explanation on your own. Do you have relevant expertise?
Well, I have learned that explaining one of my views from this thread just costed me karma points.
I’ll pass those two.