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A Flawed Argument Against Actual Infinity in Physics
Authors:Jon Perez Laraudogoitia
Institution:(1) Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, U.S.A.;(2) Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA, 02125, U.S.A.
Abstract:In “Nonconservation of Energy and loss of Determinism II. Colliding with an Open Set” (2010) Atkinson and Johnson argue in favour of the idea that an actual infinity should be excluded from physics, at least in the sense that physical systems involving an actual infinity of component elements should not be admitted. In this paper I show that the argument Atkinson and Johnson use is erroneous and that an analysis of the situation considered by them is possible without requiring any type of rejection of the idea of infinity.
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