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306 indexlimits and bounds, 10, 235–36, 241–42, 244–47,246n6, 251, 253Lindemann, Carl von, 57Livio, Mario, 204Locke, John, 227Logos (Christian), 12, 260–66logos (logical calculation and thought), 25–26loop quantum gravity (loop gravity), 168–69,173love as infinity, 15, 207n22luxuriant theories of God, 239Mach’s principle, 177, 177n1Mandean religion, 23Mandelbrot, Benoît, 186n7mathematical infinityAquinas on, 33Cantor on, 12, 61, 65–68, 77, 193n1and Christian theology, 253and Dionysus the Areopagite, 33early history of, 21–23and human evolution, 204and infinitely distant/divergent singularities,224vs. metaphysical infinity, 12and Nicholas of Cusa, 227vs. ontological infinity, 255overviews, 1–5, 55–74, 76–85, 87–118and relativistic cosmology, 218vs. religious and scientific views, 19–21, 47Russell (J. R.), 276–82and Schleiermacher, 44–45, 45n125and set theory, 65–67, 69–70, 94symbolic illustration of, 36–38and theology, 251–52“The Mathematical Infinity” (Bombieri), 55–74mathematical vs. commonsense concepts,130–31mathematics and theology, 276–89mathematics threatened with collapse, 76–85Maximus the Confessor, 264–66MBT system. See much better than (MBT)systemMeister Eckhart, 226, 291, 297metaphysical infinity, 12, 193–94, 207–10, 214,256–57, 270–71. Seealso“Notes on theConcept of the Infinite in the History ofWestern Metaphysics”metaphysical pathos, 262Meyer, Robert, 235n2Millet, François, 208Minsky, Marvin, 72Minucius Felix, Marcus, 27Moore, A. W., 234motion, 22–23, 38, 68, 255M-theory, 225much better than (MBT) system. See also betterthan (system)B + DE + SUI equaling, 139–40, 161,163B + SDE + UI proved by, 140consistency of, 4, 132equivalent to better than system, 130interpretation of, in ZF, 161overview, 130–64and SDE, 138, 140and STAR axiom, 163strengthened, 164and SUI, 138VSDE not proved by, 163and ZF/ZFC systems, 4, 132Mühlenberg, Ekkehard, 29the multiverseaesthetic considerations of, 214and the continuum hypothesis, 14, 102, 106,111, 117defined, 214generic, 3, 102–12and God, 7vs. homo-centered universe, 204infinite scenarios of, 204, 204–6inflationary, 184–88, 190–91, 196, 225laws of, 104–5, 109–11, 117mathematical imperatives regarding, 218,226multiple uses of terminology, 184n6, 218n1and pocket universes, 7probability computation in, 225randomness in, 225in the realm of the infinite, 110–17of spacetime, 6and a spatially infinite universe, 6theological considerations of, 224–25, 228and the Turing program, 119–20and ZFC set theory, 101–3Mycielski, Jan, 95Nancy, Jean-Luc, 273Narlikar, Jayant, 178Nelson, Edward, 5–6, 76–85Neo-Platonists, 24–25, 26n55, 27. SeealsoPlatonistsneutrinos, 196, 196n9Newton, Isaac, 39, 58, 62, 94, 168, 176,279Nicene theology, 263, 265–66Nicholas of Cusa, 9, 31, 33–39, 41t, 226–27,269, 291, 297