... for just as humans agree -or appear to agree- when they see a photo with the caption 'this is a red ball' that the red ball is red, so mathematicians agree that 1+1=2, and have devised more complex formulas to ensure that when a bridge is built, the maths and the engineering enable it to stand without falling down. But when the Millenium Bridge wobbled so badly after its opening in 2000 it had to be closed and its structure changed at a cost of over £8 million, it is because the maths did not take human factors into account, namely the impact a crowd of people has on bridges, that can cause them to collapse -or in this case, wobble.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...1103080801.htm
Wittgenstein offered an intriguing argument that places infinity in the here and now-
The solution of the problem of this life is to be seen in the disappearance of this problem.
But is it possible for one so to live that life stops being problematic? That one is living in infinity, not in time?
(Notebooks, 6.7.16). ('infinity' in italics in the original)
Infinity has been a problematic concept for philosophers and was the subject of Zeno's famous paradoxes, yet even with clocks ad monitors, do we ever truly feel time passing, are able to see it, touch it, taste it, hear it? It is a concept, and while it brackets our lives, we cannot know what death is any more than any of us recall being in the womb and the moment of our birth. Thus, the sensation of life itself is without mass, it has no time, and while it is not motionless, as our bodies move, it has something of the infinite about it. Or, we are so wound up in daily rituals, problems of money, lust, hunger, housing and so on, we lose the actual sensation of being itself, which does rather take Wittgenstein closer to a Buddhist concept of Nirvana.
Maths cannot deal with this, but philosophy can.