When I was young, I used to associate infinity with positive things. Teachers would tell the class that there was an infinite amount of possibilities and you just have to work hard to grab them. Now, I see things like the infinite amount of things that beg for my attention.
@mandaris I attended very little university, but for the bit I did, my favourite was my maths professor, who had specialized in the concept of infinity. He explained that if you took an infinite space and filled it with an infinite number of red balloons and inflated them so that they all touched, there would still be an infinite amount of empty space between them.
So basically, infinity always wins, I'm going to eat a doughnut.
My maths teacher at school told me that if i take infinity and times two - it is infinity and if you take infinity and times three - it is infinity and ...
BUT if you take infinity and raise it to the power of infinity - well now you have infinity - but it’s a different infinity ... and so started my journey into the land of Cantor (though I stopped before I got to the asylum).
The same maths teacher also asked me to imagine 'this room' as being everything we know about Maths. He then gave me a '1" cube' (yes it was that long ago) ... and told me that on the same scale - this is how much of all of that maths can be 'applied' to understanding what we know about the world ... 🤯
I 'went for' the room full - the cube seemed too small!