IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! YES!
I read today about infinity. And double infinity. It was kind of like reading about Chuck Norris.
I think I have always figured that there are different sizes of infinities...now I just have proof of it. It makes sense. I guess the main thought I have is that my favorite Chuck Norris joke is,
"Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice."
Now I see that that is not nearly as impossible or impressive as it sounded in my youth. You see, if he was counting to infinity on a denumerable set, then it's not impossible. All he needed to do was include all the natural numbers, and he'd be fine. To make this more impressive, I've decided to rephrase the joke to,
"Chuck Norris counted a set greater than the uncountable set of the real numbers. Twice."
There we go. Now that is impressive. I am glad to see that there's no limit to infinity. I would be concerned if there was. The Cosmos (TV show) had an animation of an ancient philosopher's idea of the universe as Cupid standing on the edge of infinity and shooting off an arrow. There are two choices for what happens to the arrow, 1) it continues on forever, or 2) it hits a barrier and doesn't continue, from which he can now stand and shoot another arrow. In either case, it goes to show you that he wasn't actually standing on the edge of infinity, nor will he ever be. It's boundless.
And that's my thoughts for today. I need to go to bed.
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