Yep. That’s the thing that never changes. “The man” is a total asshole killjoy.

You’ll just have to trust me, or ask an old timer from one of those cities you speak of (I’m from one of several in the area). They’re about 1/4 the amount of traffic that they used to be.

Combinations. Amazon, smart phones, how kids hang out, poverty, giant stores like target and wal mart…It’s a bunch of reasons that all hit against malls.

Malls haven’t been the only hit over the decades. “Cruisin” is no longer a thing. Teens used to spend hours on nice nights driving up and down a certain stretch of road in nearly every city somewhere.

More kids used to ride bikes around for funnies.

Drive in movie theaters used to be huge.

Things always change and it’s almost never just a single reason.

Apparently some more than others, but the caterpillar just needs to have faith in a higher purpose.

Don’t worry. “God made them this way”.

That’s is a very precise and very good answer, but im still at a loss as to how all the .9,.99,.999,.9999 eventually just becomes 1.

That it repeats forever, to no end. Because it can never actually be correct, just that the difference becomes insignificant.

You’re having to use … to make your conversion again. If you need to to an irrational number to make your equation correct, it isn’t really correct.

There’s the little meows…but then there’s an entirely different “I’m hungry” meow.

They’re different numbers. Base 10 isn’t perfect and can’t do everything just right, so you end up with irrational numbers that go on forever, sometimes.

Fractions and base 10 are two different systems. You’re only approximating what 1/3 is when you write out 0.3333…

The … is because you can’t actually make it correct in base 10.

1/3 is rational.

.3333… is not. You can’t treat fractions the same as our base 10 number system. They don’t all have direct conversions. Hence, why you can have a perfect fraction of a third, but not a perfect 1/3 written out in base 10.

Do that same math, but use .5555… instead of .9999…

Except it doesn’t. The math is wrong. Do the exact same formula, but use .5555… instead of .9999…

Guess it turns out .5555… is also 1.

If you can’t do it without fractions or a … then it can’t be done.

You’re just rounding up an irrational number. You have a non terminating, non repeating number, that will go on forever, because it can never actually get up to its whole value.

I’d just say that not all fractions can be broken down into a proper decimal for a whole number, just like pie never actually ends. We just stop and say it’s close enough to not be important. Need to know about a circle on your whiteboard? 3.14 is accurate enough. Need the entire observable universe measured to within a single atoms worth of accuracy? It only takes 39 digits after the 3.

X=.5555…

10x=5.5555…

Subtract x from both sides.

9x=5

X=1 .5555 must equal 1.

There it isn’t. Because that math is bullshit.

There’s no evidence that time started at the big bang, either. So it’s silly to say.

What I meant by “what if it wasn’t the first big bang?”, was that what if it wasn’t the first of our own universe? I mean what if space will at some point stop expanding and start contracting. Pull everything back close together again. Then theres another expansion just like what we’re currently in now. The best scientists, physicists, and mathematicians haven’t been able to work out a lot of major thing about our universe or how it works or even if it’s flat or folded in on itself yet. The data and tests/measurements don’t exist yet. So until that can get worked out into a theory, it’s silly to say time began at the expansion.