INFINITY is a concept that is easy to think about, but hard to understand. Has anyone ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if the universe lasts forever? If not, what does it mean?
For trained mathematical minds, infinity is rather even more attractive. More than a century before him, the mathematician knew that infinity is not just one he is, but infinitely many. There are endless endless towers that stretch out endlessly.
It’s not the worst thing. The existence of this infinite tower is a logical consequence of the mathematics as we know it, but that same mathematics cannot fully explain it. It turns out that there are no critical load-bearing beams on the lower floors, suggesting that the foundations of the mathematics itself are unstable.
Mathematicians have long debated how best to support the Tower of Infinity. Some say we should just leave ourselves alone and hope for the best. There were various opinions, such as not following. No one has made something like a breakthrough yet. Except, perhaps, until now. After decades of stalemate, serious progress has been made on the puzzling problem at the heart of it all: his nearly 150-year-old unproven conjecture known as the continuum hypothesis. It seems that.
Humans have probably thought about endless things most of the time…
