Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Continuity

I have recently begun to deal with continuity in the mathematical sense. Lines are not supposed to have holes and they are supposed to go on to infinity. But if points have no dimension but are just a location in space, then why doesn't a line have holes? If a line is the distance between two points and it contains an infinite number of points then how can it exist; would its existence be like adding an infinite number of zeros together and getting something?