Zero times infinity

The answer is 1, and here's why I reckon it to be. 1/0 = infinity, so 1/infinity = 0, and hence 0*infinity =1. However, 2/0 also = inifinity.. so we got a problem there...
As for time, before the big bang, time didn't exist, so I'd assume after the "Big Crunch" time will once again cease to exist. However, the Big Crunch relies on the existence of vast quantities of Dark Matter, and also on the ever-elusive Higgs Boson (the So called "God" particle), so maybe the Big Crunch will never occur, and the universe will be expanding forever...

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since you cannot have multiples of infinity

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i am not positive on this... but i have read in some real high level of calculus about having multiples of infinity.

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try to prove that zero, nothing, true nothing exists.

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in theory, this has been proven already... you can mathematically prove it. if i have a chance i will try to look up the proof

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1/0 = infinity

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no i think it is undefined... besides this... in exceptionally high forms of calc you can solve numbers being divided by zero.

but using your logic...

1/0=infinity
2/0=infinity
3/0=infinity
....and so on

all numbers(infinity) divided by zero = infinity, then infinity * 0 should equal infinity. that is not what i believe however. i believe it equals zero simply because if everything and nothing were multiplied, nothing could remain.

as for the time debate. "time" in the sense that there is some movement of the earth around the sun and that day and night pass exists... but "time" in human interpretation (hours, minutes and the like) is just a measuring device. just as inches is. even if there were no inches something would still have length. same with time. if humanity ceased to exist there would still be rotation of the earth around the sun. there would just be no one to measure it and dubb it time. it would still psas in the same way. time is just a convenient way to measure it.

I'd also say it's Zero (or One ;)). :)
I would be more interested to know what's infinity minus infinity... Is is zero or minus infinity?
Other infinity thing... You know if you have got an equation like x>=3, so the result is a group of numbers, [3,infinity[ . [ because infinity is not a number that could be included... x>3 would be ]3,infinity[ and "x>= 4 AND x<=8" would be [4,8]. Don't now be confusing these with the irrational numbers like (0,1) which is i, these are groups of numbers... Sooo, I was just wondering what would my maths teacher have said about a group like [3,infinity-1] ... :)
(Although it's an irrational number which is in use only in improbability physics... You have read the HHGG, haven't you? ;))

think of it in a less mathmaticall way. Mathmatics are somewhat limiting. If you take zero to be nothing, a state of non existence, and you multiplied it by infinite, all your going to get, is infinite, because, your consistentantly multiplying it now. infinite never ends, therefore the infinite*0 becomes an endless loop of infinite*0. That creates an Existence. Its not something that dissapears or gets bigger, it just continues in the loop of Infinite*0."

existence im defining as all there is, all that can be, all that will be, and anything else i can say to include all rational adn irrational ideas.

existence= Infinite*ANYTHING, zero being no different from any other number.

true that 0*A =0 anything is 0 but if you look at the line above the definition there should be something like if A is a real the big fency R that you see in all normal math books...

the answer for sure is impossible since infinity is not a real ....(in case some of you don't know, numbers are classifed into categories: real integers natural primes ..... some don't belong to any category like pi, e0 and others that don't even have expresion for like infinity)

let's try to proove that the statement 0*I=0 is wrong by absurdity:

if 0*i=0 => 0/0=infinity... simply not possible since there ARE NO WAY YOU CAN DIVIDE NOTHING BY NOTHING AND GET PLENTY !!! not in my book ....

lord darkside there are 2 kind of infinty and they are positiv and negative that's it
here are the simple rules of addition:
(+i)+(+i)=(+i) obviuosly....
(-i)+(-i)=(-i) .....
for the cross one depands how you get to that operation and the rate of increase of the functions you are using thus you could get all possible results ... a number:+/- infinity....


if you are interrested in this stuff i'll give you a real example of an infinite function having a asymptotic behavior to infinity while having a finite area beneath it .... think about it a while ....

sarin sage mathematics are limited to those who can't use them properly .... numbers can say anything you want when you want it
try this 1+1 = ?
2 wrong 10 binary ..... ie first rule of probability numbers alone don't mean anything ...

im not talking in mathmatical terms, is what im trying to say

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if 0*i=0 => 0/0=infinity...

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so.... 1/0 =0 coorect... so using your line of reasoning.... 0*0 should then = 1..... but it doesn't... ALL NUMBERS TIME 0 EQUAL ZERO... rational, irration and the like. oi agree.... infinity is not techinically a number but a symbol of eternalness... but if you had infinity nothings... or eternal nothing.... you would still have nothing.

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if 0*i=0 => 0/0=infinity...

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so.... 1*0 =0 coorect... so using your line of reasoning.... 0/0 should then = 1..... but it doesn't... ALL NUMBERS TIMEs 0 EQUAL ZERO... rational, irration and the like. oi agree.... infinity is not techinically a number but a symbol of eternalness... but if you had infinity nothings... or eternal nothing.... you would still have nothing.

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lord darkside there are 2 kind of infinty and they are positiv and negative that's it

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this i know you are worng on as well.... in college calculus, level 4 i believe... they discuss the "types of infinity" not just positives and negative.... many mathmeticians, including einstien, discussed the types of infinity....

here are a list of two types of infinity... but i believe there are four.... i'll see if i can find the others

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There do exist different types of infinity. This distinction is sort of hard to think about until it's explained. There are enumerable infinities and then there are non-countable infinities. The sequence of natural numbers is an enumerable infinity; if we sat down for an infinite length of time we could count from 1 to infinity. The number of points between 0 and 1 on the number line, however, is uncountably infinite. There is no way given an infinite length of time we could count the points. Where would we start? Pick a point and I can find another one closer to 0 than the one you picked. We say that uncountable infinite items are much larger than countable infinite items. The number of points between 0 and 1 on then number line is much greater than the size of the set of the natural numbers. I hope this helps; infinity is a hard subject to nail down.

Here's a quote you might enjoy:

"Infinity is like a stuffed walrus I can hold in the palm of my hand. Don't do anything with infinity you wouldn't do with a stuffed walrus."

-Dr. Fletcher
Va. Polytechnic Inst. and St. Univ.

(i.e., don't use it as a number)

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I'm going with 0, but it would take a really long time to calculate ;-)

as im going to say again. im not using the mathmatical values for anything.

0 "zero" is something that DOES exist because we give it a name. it is SOMETHING, but its not entirely nothing. the only true nothing is that which is not defined and cannot be concieved. the moment it is concieved, it becomes SOMETHING.

if you take the idea of 0 "zero' and multiply it by the infinitness of existence, as defined in my above post, (because it is the only true infinite) then you will recieve an infinite calculation, thus creating infinite existence

i hope i discriped that correctally, ugh

another note
nice sig krag!!!! :):)