1. Why Infinity Does Not Exist in Reality | Mind Matters

In a series of five posts, I explain the difference between what infinity means — and doesn’t mean — as a concept.

( Non-Computable You (Discovery Institute Press, 2022) by Robert J. Marks is available here. ) Does infinity exist in reality? There are, surprisingly, scientists who think infinity is a possibility even though they are unable to point to any example of infinity in reality. The great mathematician David Hilbert claimed that “ the infinite is nowhere to be found in reality .” Nevertheless, the mathematical theory of infinity developed by Georg Cantor is beautiful. Hilbert was in awe of Cantor’s beautiful theory and said “ No one shall drive us from the paradise which Cantor has created fo

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