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Infinity, In Brief

Posted February 21st, 2014 by Lesley Hazleton

There’s a great short intro to infinity from BBC’s Horizon (hey, what’s one hour compared to forever?).

The BBC un-YouTubed it since I originally posted, so here’s a different link, courtesy of AT reader ‘whizmd’:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kab09_bbc-horizon-2010-to-infinity-and-beyond-pdtv-xvid_tech.

I love these eager, brilliant Brits shaking their heads and giggling in helpless amazement at how their calculations turn out.  Yes, it’s heady stuff.  Could mathematicians be the new theologists?

 

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File under: agnosticism, existence | Tagged: Tags: distance, eternity, infinity, mathematics, time, universe | 7 Comments
  1. dggraham says:
    February 21, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    May one hope for that?

  2. delarsea says:
    February 23, 2014 at 2:55 am

    Reblogged this on How and Why?.

  3. whizmd says:
    July 20, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    Your infinity video is not working. However BBC video on infinity can be found on youtube.

    • Lesley Hazleton says:
      July 20, 2014 at 1:23 pm

      Damn, looks like it’s been taken down. I can only find a two-minute promo on YouTube. If you find the whole hour-long program, please do send me the link. Thanks — L.

      • whizmd says:
        July 20, 2014 at 1:37 pm

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQlg86lsy-o

        https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+infinity+documentary

        Check the above

  4. whizmd says:
    July 20, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kab09_bbc-horizon-2010-to-infinity-and-beyond-pdtv-xvid_tech

    Maybe this is the one for 59 minutes

  5. Lesley Hazleton says:
    July 20, 2014 at 2:15 pm

    Infinite thanks!

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