Infinity is not a number . (oblig. Numberphile)
Riemann sphere has entered the chat
It’s not a number and yet you can still do maths with it
Love it.
And the opposite is true of zero. It turns nothing into something.
Clearly you’ve never listened to mathematicians talk about infinities. Things get weird when you try to develop concepts around the inconceivably large and small. If infinity is a thought terminating cliche from your perspective, my suggestion would be to change your perspective.
Infinity is one of those concepts that might be the most human things. Does it exist outside our perception? It exists in metaphysical sense as we can perceive it, but our senses and minds are imprecise meat, so does that mean infinity doesn’t exist outside human experience? Like bigger and smaller infinities, is that a sign it’s a human perception thing or is that itself also a quirk of human perception? We can’t separate ourselves from the reality we form. I keep getting lost in the infinity





