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Originally Posted by OngBonga
You're wrong.
678*46=31188
678/(1/46)=31188
46/(1/678)=31188
Take any two numbers, mulitply them together, note your answer, then divide one by the reciprocal of the other, and note your answer.
Apology accepted.
Good example of why proving statements in general can almost never be done by giving examples. You could give me an infinite amount of examples in this case and still be wrong, precisely because you only need one example that doesn't work which I know. I'll give you a hint I've already told you it's meaningless.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
Again, you're wrong, although I can't actually prove this one.
The limit of 1/x as x approaches infinity is 0. This is not the same thing as 1/infinity = 0.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
If this were true, then neither can you multiply by zero. Because... division and multiply are essentially the same function, just the inverse of one another. The proof is above, see the reciprocal sums.
No you can multiply by zero. Any number (note infinity isn't a number) multiplied by zero is zero. What you're doing is using an incorrect definition and attempting to work backwards. What you actually know is a nice little trick for manipulating fractions not the real definitions of mathematical terms.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
Nature is absolutely full of things that are different yet the same. Such as... space and time, energy and matter, magnetism and electricity, mulitplication and division, addition and subtraction. When two things are so intricstically linked that they cannot exist without the other, then for all intents and purposes, they are one and the same. It's no coincidence that the word "spacetime" exists and has meaning. Different apsects of the same thing. To say that "the same" and "different" are as black and white as you're suggesting, that implies that multiplication is as different to division as apples are. It's you who doesn't understand what "different" means.
Once again the terms aren't interchangable in literally every single one of the examples you gave. They are linked, not the same. The words same means something but once again you think you can bastardise it's meaning and that's ok.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
That's not what I said. I said physics, not physicists. One day a physicist might be able to explain it, but that day hasn't come yet. That is because physicists don't yet fully understand physics.
Ohh so you were making a meaningless statement. Something exists therefore physics will one day explain it in full. I'm not sure I agree but at least that statement is debatable rather than completely wrong like what I thought you were saying.
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