Does the Universe Go On For Infinity?

Here is a continuation of the backdrop in which this discussion can be compared to.  Basically different angles and historical opinions leading up to the making of this video:

For those who find infinity hard to grasp, even troubling, you’re not alone. It’s a concept that has long tormented even the best minds.

Over two thousand years ago, the Greek mathematician Pythagoras and his followers saw numerical relationships as the key to understanding the world around them.

But in their investigation of geometric shapes, they discovered that some important ratios could not be expressed in simple numbers.

Take the circumference of a circle to its diameter, called Pi.

Computer scientists recently calculated Pi to 5 trillion digits, confirming what the Greeks learned: there are no repeating patterns and no ending in sight.

The discovery of the so-called irrational numbers like Pi was so disturbing, legend has it, that one member of the Pythagorian cult, Hippassus, was drowned at sea for divulging their existence.

A century later, the philosopher Zeno brought infinity into the open with a series of paradoxes: situations that are true, but strongly counter-intuitive.

As mentioned feel free to comment with your ideas.  The thread is all over the place and there are some inquisitive questions too.



7 Comments

  1. Ismail Imam said:

    I think always new universes apear and others disapear .sone died others born .and that will go on forever .changes .and recycling it self .shape and reshap.it self.

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