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It's Okay to Be Smart
Infinity isn’t a number. It's something much weirder.
Season 14
Episode 4
Infinity sounds simple. It just means really, really big, right? But once you start performing infinite numbers of actions in a finite amount of time, reality begins to crack. This video explores the paradoxes, supertasks, and bizarre mathematics that show how infinity is something far stranger than just a number.
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