It could start at that size, but it would still have to grow at the walking/flying speed of whoever was exploring, to make sure they never reached “The End”!
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If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no ones around to hear it, does it make a sound? Yes, so why would an infinitely growing world need a being to keep it growing? Even if all living organisms died the universe would not cease to exist. So why would an infinitely growing land stop growing?
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The effect of gravity on an object is also determined by distance isn’t it? Therefore an object of infinite volume would have a center of mass that is an infinite distance from anything on it’s surface which is what I was saying. Although we can actually disprove gravity as it functions normally because of the way that the ground does not compact over time as would have to happen if it was affected by gravity (that’s totally ignoring the fact they don’t have arms or legs). This is known because the world functions off the perfect cubes which would also mean that it can’t be a sphere as I previously suggested because that would cause distortion from the shape. Of course if we consider limits than we could get parallel lines that converge at infinity which would allow for the spherical world, unfortunately that means we’re no longer using euclidean geometry so it starts to get a bit more twisty there.
For infinite growth it’s an interesting problem, we know that any point in the world can be determined at any point in time but also that is infinite so would that not imply that it must be predictable? However sadly my knowledge of maths doesn’t reach this high into the theory of things like calculus and infinity, it does allow me to create an equivalent example though. The fibonacci sequence or prime numbers, every point within the set can be calculated with 100% certainty at any point in time but the size of the set is infinite, so there’s my question for you, please explain why those sets would be growing.
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You can predict the next item in the set, and you can determine the limit of a set (if it has one). They grow because they have no limit. The Fibonacci sequence is an infinite set which is boundless. If you however take the set 1/x^2 you will see it is a bounded infinite set. The set goes on forever and we can predict the next number in the set. While we don’t know where the set ends we do know its limit is 1 and therefore its destination is somewhere right before one. So yes you can predict the set, no you can’t predict the end point because it is infinite.
The reason I deleted my post is to avoid conflict, I don’t particularly appreciate you quoting it after it has been deleted.
Yes, but that doesn’t mean you’re not under its effects, it is simply weaker than it was. We are constantly being pulled on by everything in our universe but their forces are much weaker than the Earth’s since we’re close to it. This has nothing to do with volume though. An object of infinite mass (i.e. The planet Stonehearth as you propose) would exert infinite gravity on anything in its vicinity or better yet on the people standing on it.
See my first comment where I stated gravity must function differently in Stonehearth. This doesn’t mean that gravity doesn’t exist simply that it leads to different shapes (or a different compacting style). Objects still fall and if birds must fly as they are combating gravity. Without gravity bunnies would not be able to jump, as we have seen them do. What this does mean is that their gravity operates on two planes as opposed to one. One plane of gravity pushes things from the vertical which anchors it to the ground and the other acts upon the horizontal to keep things upright. If this works on the planet we must assume it is favored celestially meaning planet Stonehearth is a cube, as I stated before.