The results are confirmed by other methods. The 0.999… =1 result can be achieved by series expansions or with straight divisions, multiplications, additions and subtractions - probably a dozen have been shown in this thread. In order to accept “your logic”, we would have to throw out the work in many fields of mathematics.
You can start another thread where you claim that series don’t converge. I’m sure that you can make it run for 50 pages or more.
Technically it’s a trick question… thought can make light move faster… thought can traverse all space and time much faster than light, practically speaking… you can talk to embodied beings in their state that was trillions upon trillions of light years ago
Or even what they are now… thought moves faster than anything in existence
shrug. Analogies and metaphors have their limits… experience reigns supreme still. So tell me, this infinity that you hang out at where all these series converge for you… is it fun? Oh, that’s right… it’s just a metaphor! Like I said, experience reigns supreme…
Yeah, unfortunately I have to work within my limits. I have never talked to God or spirits or demons, been to heaven or hell, touched infinity, had out of body experiences, been reincarnated, been one with the universal consciousness, made a perpetual motion machine, circumvented the laws of thermodynamics …
I’m making lemonade with the lemons that I have gathered over the years.
Sorry James, I felt obligated to add this to my prior comment, perhaps we can get back to the question phyllo avoided about whether math being a representation of reality is in fact not reality itself, as we ponder ideas of presumed convergences
I think a grand creator is outside of my head. What I decide about it, is inside my head and my decision may be wrong. But I understand that’s how knowledge works and I accept it.
You have no idea what you are talking about. There have never been any “results” or proofs that 1 = 0.999… And there never will be. And your fantasy about math having to be thrown out is just nonsense.
I can tell you this. There are lots of beings older, wiser, and more powerful than you.
I can also tell you this… a grand creator doesn’t care whether you believe in it, it can make a perfectly consistent atheistic universe for you, co-shared perfectly consistently with creationists …
You can co-exist in the same exact world system and the system is internally and externally consistent for atheists and creationists… this type of precision is mind blowing!!