When the 'end' is also the 'beginning' of another process, one can carry on infinitely, like a road that reconnects back to itself.
Hartshorne's Platonic or Bergsonian argument against creation ex nihilo, in simplified form, looks something like this: one can in fact imagine the nonexistence of this or that, or even of this or that class of things, a fact that gives some the confidence to (erroneously) think that this process can go on infinitely such that one could imagine a state in which there was "absolutely nothing".
First, the directivity of sound sources and the acoustical effect of topography are investigated using a train launcher facility around a portal on infinitely flat ground and with an infinite vertical baffle plate.
The infinite-dimensional unitary group U is one of the basic examples of "big" groups whose irreducible representations depend on infinitely many parameters.
It goes on and on and on, infinitely.
These old broadcasts are still emanating into outer space, and those radio waves are just going to go on infinitely".
Prior to that, though, he or she must cross Point D halfway between A and C, and so on infinitely, such that the traveler never in fact moves.
The delicate wafers of food fall lightly onto the water, linger on the surface tension, and are broken apart on infinitely eager lips.
It's safe to say that if museums permitted visitors to tote stiff, cold gin martinis, I'd be a veritable squatter at the Louvre and on infinitely more intimate terms with Michelangelo.
It's not the work space one expects from this Brooklyn artist, known for dazzling glass works like "Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism," a shimmering display of mirror-glass decanters that seem to go on infinitely, and "Island Universe," a suite of five room-size silvery sculptures that illuminate the Big Bang theory.
