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To Infinity and Beyond / series producer, James van der Pool ; produced & directed by Stephen Cooter ; BBC Productions.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Horizon
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infinite.
- Mathematics.
- Physics.
- Scientific method.
- Local Subjects:
- Physics.
- Scientific method.
- Mathematics.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Television series.
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation, 2005.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like a perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems. Mathematicians have discovered there are infinitely many infinities, each one infinitely bigger than the last. And if the universe goes on forever, the consequences are even more bizarre. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of the Earth and infinitely many copies of you. Older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction. This is the story of infinity.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 981596005
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