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SparklyKatie On March 07, 2014
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#1New Post! Feb 20, 2010 @ 04:09:00
Watching this on BBC1 at the moment as I can't sleep and it's interesting if a little confusing thinking about infinity.

By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like a perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems.

Mathematicians have discovered there are infinitely many infinities, each one infinitely bigger than the last. And if the universe goes on forever, the consequences are even more bizarre. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of the Earth and infinitely many copies of you. Older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction. This is the story of infinity.



It's in 6 parts but well worth a watch if you're interested in stuff like this.
TheBlackGhost On August 27, 2014




Chicago, Illinois
#2New Post! Feb 20, 2010 @ 04:21:43
Infinite infinities is redundant, since infinity has no end.

Also, the universe is not infinite, it has a set amount of matter and energy.

The theory that states that there are infinite universes is only a theory and not shared by all scientists. In fact, its actually quite a radical and modern idea and probably not true either.

There are a lot of logical fallacies in that video. Cool to think about as a theory, but its not all realistic science.
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