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How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes?

Mark Belan and Jordana Cepelewicz in Quanta: Infinity invites resistance. Aristotle rejected the existence of the infinite entirely; to him, infinity was simply a limit that could never be reached, not a true mathematical entity. In the early 17th century, Galileo wrote that typical ways of thinking.

In the early 17th century, Galileo wrote that typical ways of thinking.

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