Comment by bloomingkales

Thank you for the clarification. I wanted to use some kind of visual to show the model in a loop. Otherwise, I’d just have to say explicitly that the sculptor is the one in the loop, as in the person will not stop chiseling. It’s in this infinite chiseling that we get our answers (same thing as finding a limit in calculus as it approaches infinity, we will never get the discrete answer, but we will get infinitely close enough to label a discrete point confidently).

In other words, we fly as close to the sun as possible and get our measurements :)