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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Some great answers here, one thing I’d add is that infinity isn’t a number, it’s more of a concept. While we can get away with treating it like a number sometimes, we’ll eventually get to something nonsensical. For example consider
Infinity +1 = Infinity
Which seems pretty sensible right? If we subtract infinity as if it were a number we get
1 = 0
Which is obviously a load of rubbish. So thinking about infinity like a number that fits within our usual rules is the wrong thing to do
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