Infinity is bigger than you think - Numberphile
Sometimes infinity is even bigger than you think... Dr James Grime explains with a little help from Georg Cantor. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Minute Physics video...
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JAMES GRIME: We're going to break a rule. We're break one of the rules of Numberphile. We're talking about something that isn't a number. We're going to talk about infinity. So infinity. Now like I said, infinity is not a number. It's a idea. It's a concept. It's the idea of being endless, of going on forever. I think everyone's familiar with the idea of infinity, even kids. You start counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-- you might be five years old, but already you're thinking, what's the biggest number I can think of. And you go, oooh, it's 20. You get a bit older, and you go, maybe it's a million. It never ends, does it? 'Cause you can keep adding 1. So that's the idea of infinity. The numbers go o...
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JAMES GRIME: We're going to break a rule. We're break one of the rules of Numberphile. We're talking about something that isn't a number. We're going to talk about infinity. So infinity. Now like I said, infinity is not a number. It's a idea. It's a concept. It's the idea of being endless, of going on forever. I think everyone's familiar with the idea of infinity, even kids. You start counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-- you might be five years old, but already you're thinking, what's the biggest number I can think of. And you go, oooh, it's 20. You get a bit older, and you go, maybe it's a million. It never ends, does it? 'Cause you can keep adding 1. So that's the idea of infinity. The numbers go o...
