Mathematicians have just discovered a new infinity, one that doesn’t follow any of the rules of mathematics. It is so strange, in fact, that it could change how we understand logic, numbers and even the universe itself. In this video, University of Oxford physicist Abi James takes us on a tour of the infinity ladder, a rung-by-rung guide to the largest numbers possible – and even finds mathematicians who want to destroy infinity altogether.
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