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Everything Everywhere Daily

Infinity and Beyond

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The biggest thing there is and the biggest thing there can be is infinity. It literally has no bounds. In fact, thinking about infinity can quickly give you a nosebleed because our finite minds can’t really grasp just how enormous it really is. However, what if I were to tell you that there is something even bigger than infinity? Or, to be more accurate, there are infinities that are bigger than other infinities? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The biggest thing that there can be is infinity, right?

0:04.6

It literally has no bounds.

0:06.6

In fact, thinking about infinity can quickly give you a nosebleeder

0:09.4

a headache because our finite minds can't really grasp just how enormous it really is.

0:14.4

However, what if I was to tell you that there's something even bigger than infinity?

0:18.8

Or to be more accurate, there are infinities that are bigger than other infinities.

0:24.0

Follow me down the rabbit hole as I investigate infinity on this episode of Everything Everywhere

0:29.0

Daily. This episode is sponsored by audible.

0:33.0

My audio book. This episode is sponsored by audible.com. My audiobook recommendation today is The Mystery of

0:47.0

the Aleph, Mathematics, the Cabala, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Haskell.

0:53.0

Towards the end of the 19th century,

0:55.0

one of the most brilliant mathematicians in history,

0:57.0

Gior Cantnor, languished in an asylum.

1:00.0

His greatest accomplishment, the result of a series of extraordinary leaps of insight,

1:04.8

was his pioneering understanding of the nature of infinity.

1:08.0

How he came to his theories in the reverberations of his pioneering work will shape our world for the foreseeable future.

1:14.0

Kenor's theory of the infinite is famous for its many seeming contradictions.

1:18.0

For example, we can prove that in all time there are as many years as days

1:22.0

and that there are as many points on a one inch line as on a one mile line.

1:27.0

You can get a free one month trial to audible and two free audio books by going to

1:30.4

Audible trial.com slash everything everywhere or by clicking on the link in the show

1:34.7

notes.

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