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 you can't compute with something that is not a number

infinity is not a number, so you can't subtract from it, or add to it

at all

infinity is the Goedel flaw in computation, you can't have computation without infinity as a possible result or factor, but when it appears, you can no longer perform a computation

singularity, on the other hand, is an identity, and the entire race of integers is based on singularity

yet, it is also indivisible, like infinity, and subtracting from it can only yield nothing

and then we can proceed to the matter of ordinals

nothing is the first, that's why it got assigned that equivalence by computer scientists, and the length of nothing is a singularity, which is also called "nil" which is just a short way of saying "nihil" which is also nothing.

you can't do computation with infinity or nothing

infinity in computation tends to spring from trying to divide nothing, which is a problem that you work with integers, and you have formed an equation that got values assigned to its fields that produces a zero, and zero is nothing, and you get its identity when you multiply it, and infinity when you divide it

i'm not really sure that any of this proves anything exactly but the point is that if God is related to numbers, then he is the Infinity, AND the Nothing or Zero

both the content and the medium, at the same time

we can't have finity without infinity and nothing, that's just the nature of reality, really, it's the end of the story, and the beginning at the same time

reminds me

part of the basis of my personal theory of physics is the idea that space (nothing) is constantly being divided (which ultimately leads to infinity)

space itself must therefore be units of the singularity as we have in this moment

and then it divides, and we have more units of singularity, and we therefore must send it into the void in order to maintain the geometric relations of matter

and my assertion is that matter's properties arise out of the fact that it must disperse space, and space is not zero, it's 1, and it pops out of infinity every time the clock ticks