Then you mention some nameless and perhaps imaginary guru who has come to you in a private message or was it a vision or something and has set you straight.
The person is very real, and he is welcome to post here if he wants. It's not my place to reveal private conversations.
And you say the guru said you were wrong but I wasn’t right.
Wow you are dull. I said I was wrong and you were right, but you still don't understand why you are right.
And the accusation that I don’t understand hinges on the use of the word proof. Perhaps you got that from your guru? Proof can always be refuted. Proof for one is never irrefutable by or transferable to another. Do you want to dispute that next?
Proof in this context (maths) is not open for debate. If you prove something then it can only be dis-proven if your system is sick. You're getting confused between mathematical logic and falsifiability, I'll warrant.
But my proof is the challenge to you to “try it”. Apparently you tried it, discovered I was right, and can’t man up.
I believe I've acted quite honourably in this discussion. The readers of this thread will ultimately be the judges of that.
I was hoping you would man up about the fact that I was right and you were wrong. But instead, someone you respect says you are wrong and you thank them for getting you to understand, and then you turn around and prove that you don’t yet understand.
You still haven't been able to explain to me why time can be infinite and yet there can only be finite intervals. You quite clearly have no idea what you're talking about at all.
Do you stick by this?
Sure - You are basically saying that the distance between two events is |x - y|. If time is infinite then why can't I choose $$x = \infty \, ; y = - \infty$$ so the separation is $$\infty$$? There is a reason that I now understand, but perhaps you would like to explain it from your point of view?
I do understand it. You don’t.
Go on then - explain it.
Please tell me if you see the oxymoron in your phrase, “infinite intervals”. Do I need to start a thread so you can get your gurus and respected friends to support this new concept of initinite intervals or will you just admit you still don't understand that you cannot have an infinite amount of time between two events. Or maybe you can difine an interval that doesn't start and stop?
What is an interval? - it's nothing more than a gap of some specified size between two points on a line (that's not the rigorous definition BTW). Essentially the size of the interval can be any size I want. There is, as I've said already, a point that means the interval cannot be infinite for time but I can have an infinite interval if I chose the right circumstances. You don't understand what an oxymoron is.