
Is infinity real or just mathematical?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Greeks didn't know if infinity was real. They had two different concepts: actual infinity and potential infinity. The greeks called it the horror of the infinite. And they did all these proofs where you could have, you know, used infinity as a mathematical step. But that's something they actually shied away from.
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