In your opinion, if you were to intersect an infinite line at ANY point, would you have bisected it (divided it exactly in half) seeing as both sides still carry on infinitely in one direction?
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Ruby Doomsday
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If it would carry on infinitely in one direction then I suppose it would have to depend on where the other direction began/
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Yes, most certainly. It would be like bisecting a circle.
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This is enough to explode my brain, but I think I agree that it would be bisecting. The real question is - can you halve something that is infinite, since you cannot see the start or finish? Where is the middle? :) Great question!
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If I was to intersect TWICE, i.e. with two different lines, one at -4 and one at 4. The left hand side of the -4 intersect will be 8 units shorter than the left hand side of the 4 and vice versa. Yet, as you said, both sides of the intersect is infinitely long. Thus the actual answer to the question is that it will be intersected AND bisected at any point! The funny thing about infinity is that it can be two different values AND the same value at the same time: 5*infnity = infinity
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From your point of view, yes. However, someone else bisecting the line would think the same. And if that person looked at you, they would think that you were wrong since from their perspective, they were in the center. So, it's relative, it's in your point of view. Sorry for going from mathematical to philosophical, it's just me being me.
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In my opinion, yes.
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Intersected, bisected, rejected, directed, ejected
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I love the question. In my opinion, no, just because a line of infinite length cannot be exactly measured in either direction. So you wouldn't be able to accurately say that each "half" of the line equals the other. In the end, though, I have no idea!!!
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