Infinity, eternal, forever, everlasting

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Stu seems to deny infinity or anything that can exist forever.

Is he right or is he limited in his understanding?

I thought I would add this interesting idea:

In the late 19th century, Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a German mathematician, finally put infinity on a firm logical foundation and described a way to do arithmetic with infinite quantities useful to mathematics. His basic definition was simple: a collection is infinite, if some of its parts are as big as the whole. For example, even though from one point of view the entire list of numbers we count with {1,2,3,4,5,…….} is twice as large as the list of even numbers {2,4,6,8,10,…….}, the two lists can be matched-up in a one-to-one fashion. So the two lists are exactly the same size, infinite.

http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/math/infinity.html

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