Einer der faszinierendsten Einfälle des menschlichen Geistes ist sicherlich die Idee von der Unendlichkeit. Was heißt unendlich eigentlich genau? Ist es nur ein anderes Wort für etwas, was niemals erreicht werden kann, oder existieren viele Unendlichkeiten, ähnlich den Galaxien? Everything you might want to know about infinity - in history and all the way to today's cutting-edge science. What is it like to live in a Universe where nothing is original, where you can live forever, where anything that can be done, is done, over and over again?These are some of the deep questions that the idea of the infinite pushes us to ask.…mehr
Einer der faszinierendsten Einfälle des menschlichen Geistes ist sicherlich die Idee von der Unendlichkeit. Was heißt unendlich eigentlich genau? Ist es nur ein anderes Wort für etwas, was niemals erreicht werden kann, oder existieren viele Unendlichkeiten, ähnlich den Galaxien? Everything you might want to know about infinity - in history and all the way to today's cutting-edge science.What is it like to live in a Universe where nothing is original, where you can live forever, where anything that can be done, is done, over and over again?These are some of the deep questions that the idea of the infinite pushes us to ask.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Preface 1 Much Ado about Everything The Rough Guide to Infinity Intimations of the Infinite Zeno Hour 2 Infinity, Almost and Actual, Fictitious and Factual Darkness at Noon A Purely Aristotelian Relationship Infinity and God A Little Kant 3 Welcome to the Hotel Infinity Hotels Experiences of the Hotel Infinity The Hotel Infinity’s Accounts 4 Infinity Is Not a Big Number An Immaculate Misconception Albert of Saxony’s Paradox Galileo’s Paradox Cadmus and Harmonia Terminator 0, 1⁄2, and 1 Countable Infinities Uncountable Infinities The Towering Infinito 5 The Madness of Georg Cantor Cantor and Son The Chronicle of Kronecker Cantor, God, and Infinity – the Trinity with Affinity All’s Sad that Ends Bad 6 Infinity Comes in Three Flavours Triple Top Let’s Get Physical Naked Infinities The Great Blue Yonder Infinity on the Back Foot 7 Is the Universe Infinite? Everything That Is Cosmology Goes Underground Bent Universes The Problem of Topology The Problem of Uniformity The Problem of Acceleration Where Does This Leave Us? The Shining 8 The Infinite Replication Paradox A Universe Where Nothing Is Original The Great Escape The Temporal Version – Been There, Done That The Never-ending Story The Ethics of the Infinite 9 Worlds Without End Other Worlds in History Out of This World Inflation – Here, There, and Everywhere Conscious Interventions – Men in Black Simulated Universes How Should We Then Live? 10 Making Infinity Machines Super-tasks Rubbing Thomson’s Lamp Some Norse Code The End-game Problem Relativity and the Amazing Shrinking Man A Matter of Timing Newtonian Super-tasks Relativistic Super-tasks Big Bangs and Big Crunches 11 Living Forever Childhood’s End The Sociology of Eternity The Problem-Page of the Unending Future The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten Incestuous Time Travel The Grandmother Paradox Consistent Histories Tourists From the Future Time Travellers in the Financial World: Perpetual Money Machines Why You Can’t Change the Past Infinity – Where Will It All End? Notes Index
Preface 1 Much Ado about Everything The Rough Guide to Infinity Intimations of the Infinite Zeno Hour 2 Infinity, Almost and Actual, Fictitious and Factual Darkness at Noon A Purely Aristotelian Relationship Infinity and God A Little Kant 3 Welcome to the Hotel Infinity Hotels Experiences of the Hotel Infinity The Hotel Infinity’s Accounts 4 Infinity Is Not a Big Number An Immaculate Misconception Albert of Saxony’s Paradox Galileo’s Paradox Cadmus and Harmonia Terminator 0, 1⁄2, and 1 Countable Infinities Uncountable Infinities The Towering Infinito 5 The Madness of Georg Cantor Cantor and Son The Chronicle of Kronecker Cantor, God, and Infinity – the Trinity with Affinity All’s Sad that Ends Bad 6 Infinity Comes in Three Flavours Triple Top Let’s Get Physical Naked Infinities The Great Blue Yonder Infinity on the Back Foot 7 Is the Universe Infinite? Everything That Is Cosmology Goes Underground Bent Universes The Problem of Topology The Problem of Uniformity The Problem of Acceleration Where Does This Leave Us? The Shining 8 The Infinite Replication Paradox A Universe Where Nothing Is Original The Great Escape The Temporal Version – Been There, Done That The Never-ending Story The Ethics of the Infinite 9 Worlds Without End Other Worlds in History Out of This World Inflation – Here, There, and Everywhere Conscious Interventions – Men in Black Simulated Universes How Should We Then Live? 10 Making Infinity Machines Super-tasks Rubbing Thomson’s Lamp Some Norse Code The End-game Problem Relativity and the Amazing Shrinking Man A Matter of Timing Newtonian Super-tasks Relativistic Super-tasks Big Bangs and Big Crunches 11 Living Forever Childhood’s End The Sociology of Eternity The Problem-Page of the Unending Future The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten Incestuous Time Travel The Grandmother Paradox Consistent Histories Tourists From the Future Time Travellers in the Financial World: Perpetual Money Machines Why You Can’t Change the Past Infinity – Where Will It All End? Notes Index
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