I cannot understand how there are “larger infinities than others” no matter how hard I try.

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I have watched many videos on YouTube about it from people like vsauce, veratasium and others and even my math tutor a few years ago but still don’t understand.

Infinity is just infinity it doesn’t end so how can there be larger than that.

It’s like saying there are 4s greater than 4 which I don’t know what that means. If they both equal and are four how is one four larger.

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Infinity is not a number with a value, it is a concept.

Between 1 and 2 there are infinite numbers 1.00-1, 1.00-2 all the way until you get to 1.99-9 with an indeterminable amount of numbers in the dash.

Guess what has twice as many as that indeterminable amount?

The numbers between 1 and 3!

So you really gotta separate your view of numbers from the concept of the infinite. They just don’t gel well together

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