Series exploring topical scientific issues examines the story of infinity - older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction.
By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems.
Mathematicians have discovered there are infinitely many infinities, each one infinitely bigger than the last. And if the universe goes on forever, the consequences are even more bizarre. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of the Earth and infinitely many copies of you. Older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction. This is the story of infinity.
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Is infinity a number?
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Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Steven Berkoff |
Director | Stephen Cooter |
Producer | Andrew Cohen |
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50 Years of Horizon
A collection of Horizon programmes, celebrating 50 years of broadcasting.
50 Years of Horizon
A collection of programmes specially chosen to celebrate Horizon's 50th anniversary.