What Is Infinity — And Why Does It Bother Us?

Examples

1. Infinity is like a never-ending bag of candies.
2. You can count all the numbers you know, but not all numbers fit into that list, some infinities are just bigger than others.
3. If you have an infinite number of shelves, each with infinite books on them, it still feels like there are more books than you thought.

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See also

• Why Does Infinity Keep Changing Shape?
• How Infinity Works (And How It Breaks Math)?
• What is infinitely?
• What is Aleph-null (ℵ₀)?
• Can numbers grow forever?

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