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How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?

The Joy of Why

CHAPTER

The Physics of Infinity

There's nothing that you can measure in physics that is larger than ten to the 100 or ten to the 200. Maybe our concept of things being continuous, continuous motion or whatever,. maybe this is all just an illusion, maybe everything is really granular and finite. But what is true is that certainly physicists have discovered a lot about the world we live in by imagining that things are smooth and continuous.

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