Infinity???????????????????

Question

What's the furthest you've personally come to comprehending infinity?

I don't mean realizing that's it's not a number...or encompasses everything, a boundless limit , etc, or different kinds of infinity passively

but you know when you think about infinity --and your heart starts to race ....and panic starts to set in


what's the furthest you've gone ....have you ever come to a psychological truth about infinity ....or had a moment of clarity???

Answer 1

i like the digit that represents infinity. but in answer to your question.....no.

Answer 2

I try not to get caught up on these kinds of subject. Kinda like how space is "never ending." But in my opinion the word "infinity" was created because our minds can't wrap around the concept of "never ending.". As you can see it didn't work out that way, but that's my opinion.

Update: 9/7

I learned something in school today (go figure). We were talking about Function Notation and I remembered this question so I could ask my instructor and he explained it out a little bit, i'll try and expand on what he said;

when you think of infinity you think of it in terms of whole number; [0,1,2,3,4,5,6...] That's the FIRST level of infinity.

now think of ALL the decimals inbetween 1 and 2;

1__________________________2
__[1.1__________[1.2 _________
____1.01__________1.02_______
_______1.001...]_______1.002...]_

You can take ALL of the 'infinity' whole number and stick them between any two integers. therefor there are infinity numbers between every integer making that the SECOND level of infinity because its even larger (hopefully that doesn't sound too complicated).

Now think about Pi, take 3 and 4 and start writing in all of the infinity decimal and eventually you get to Pi [3.14...] and Pi is infinity long with infinity decimals. And Pi isn't the only one (1/3rds = .333333...), thus is the THIRD level of infinity (the third largest).

There are more than these but not even my instructor could explain it, it gets WAY more complicated than this.

This isn't really confusing, just hard to wrap your mind around. I'm only 16 and here I am explaining this.

I really hope this helps because I found it VERY interesting. If thing don't make sense tell me and I'll try to better explain them.

Answer 3

ive had the same feeling about that and also about the depths of outter space...it goes on forever...(supposedly)

Answer 4

Kinda. But I quite smokin' that shiΓ a long time ago ☺

Doug

Answer 5

nope. cannot say that I have.