Some infinities are bigger than others ♾🧐 w/Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Episode: Neil deGrasse Tyson "Some infinities are bigger than others" (from Joe Rogan Experience #919)

[samuraiplays]

The fact that i can understand everything he said is mindblowing

[colinmcnulty]

I am infinitely confused by this conversation.

[andrijakatic]

And this is the story of how I lost my final brain cell😭💀

[kikilocket]

For people confused:

Theres countable infinity which is the most basic form of infinite and the easiest to understand. It involves all rational numbers: 1, 2, 3... etc and this is a single type of infinity.

Theres uncountable infinity which will have irrational numbers and theres basically an infinite number of uncountable infinities.

Transcendental numbers are numbers that go on infinitely without a solution.

[psychshell]

The human mind cannot fully understand math/physics concepts because we generally think in finite spaces. The universe has no end

[metal]

Best way to describe it is
1 An infinite line of dots with a foot space between them
2 An infinite line with an inch space between them

Both are infinite but 2 has more

[coleabrahams]

Just a slight correction: Neil said infinity is a number. It isn’t.

[Mr.BrokenRecord]

Well, yeah. If their are 2 universes, we'll call one universe A and the other Universe B, Universe A was created 1 billion years ago, and universe B was just created. It will take 1 billion years for universe A to be 2 billion years old, while universe B would be 1 billion years old. Universe A is bigger than universe B because it was created before universe B's creation, and since the universe is technically infinite, that makes universe A bigger infinity than universe B.

[cxokpic]

I like to think of it as, are there more numbers between 1-2 or 1-10? You can always add a zero to the decimal; 1.01, 1.001, so there are infinite numbers between both, but the second infinity must be larger than the first

[telholland]

By the definition of infinity, there can't be some larger than others. It is just that the term "infinite" doesn't hold up in this situation he is explaining. Infinity is useless in this scenario. "Infinity 1" is not bigger than "infinity 2". The term is just moot at that point.

[InsightSplash]

Yep it's fascinating. Had tons of hard time accepting it

[johnnyboy]

I like to explain it like this:
Imagine you have infinity number of chairs.
All chairs have 4 legs.
How many total legs are there?

Well the answer is infinity of course, but it is a larger infinity than the number of chairs.

[Dev_Taylor]

“Sir, I just wanted to know what size drink you wanted”

[SomeRandomLad]

i wonder if you can have an infinite infininty

[dockerb]

This is the same as saying something that is more quickly exponential is more infinite. No sense made.

[bolaibrahim]

If infinity is bigger than others does that mean some 0 are bigger than others

[Biketunerfy]

Fibonacci sequence is a good example. Found in nature everywhere and also never ending like Pi which is also an irrational number which means that its decimal representation has no end and no repeating pattern.

[erikreynoso]

So he’s saying that infinite sizes are bigger depending on their data base/index/library category 😊. I understand what he’s say but he’s just segregating infinite. ♾️
Ohhhh okay I see what you mean now. But really, at this point you’re just nitpicking.

[pedrodanielrebolledoramire]

OMG ❤ he also red "the fault in our stars" 👌👌👌

[kevinmoore]

Why the fuck is he wearing a cowboy hat?