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Originally Posted by CraigS
Has the formalised mathematical definition of infinity, (ala Cantor, Godel,etc), ever resulted in productive outcomes for society ?
Has a meaningless explanation about "something that can't be explained", which somehow leads to a somewhat irritating "bounding concept" that gives other things "a new meaning", resulted in something productive which society can use ? 
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Well, if you take the infinities which occasionally crop up in QM and are renormalised in order to cancel them out, then the mathematics that relies on their existence has produced things like the silicon chip, the transistor, radar, GPS, computers etc etc etc.
