On this day that fetishizes finitude, that reminds us how rapidly our own earthly time share is shrinking, allow me to offer the modest comfort of infinities.
Podcast: Science Times This week: we take up infinity (though this podcast will be finite) and a secret weapon against the bloodsuckers of the night — you, on deworming pills. An Endless Subject, and a Way to End Bedbugs? play max volume 19:36
Connect With Us on Social Media @nytimesscience on Twitter. Science Reporters and Editors on Twitter Like the science desk on Facebook. Yes, infinities, plural. The popular notion of infinity may be of a monolithic totality, the ultimate, unbounded big tent that goes on forever and subsumes everything in its path — time, the cosmos, your complete collection of old Playbills. Yet in the ever-evolving view of scientists, philosophers and other scholars, there really is no single, implacable entity called infinity.
To read the original article: The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities - NYTimes.com
