1. THERE ARE AN INFINITE NUMBER OF
DIFFERENT KINDS OF INFINITIES
When we think about the number line, we can see that there's no end to it - both in the
negative direction and in the positive direction, the numbers go on forever. You can
always add one more. We call that forever "infinity".
But infinity's more complicated than that. There can be a lot of different infinities, and
they can be different sizes. For example, suppose we take the set of all positive whole
numbers. That would be infinite, and the same size as the set of all negative whole
numbers. But what if we looked at the set of all even positive whole numbers? Wouldn't
that be only half the size of the set of all positive whole numbers? If you added together
the set of all even numbers and the set of all odd numbers, you'd get an infinity the
same size as the set of all positive whole numbers. And yet there's certainly an infinite
number of even numbers, too.
What about fractions? The set of all whole and half numbers would have to be twice as
big as the set of all whole numbers, and four times as big as the set of all even
numbers.
Now suppose in addition to that number line we begin to think about a number plane.
We've got infinities of numbers going off north, south, east and west. What about a
number universe, with infinities going off in three dimensions? Or, if we count time as a
fourth dimension, then even more directions are possible. In fact, there are an infinite
number of different kinds of infinities.