Scientists usually have an uncomfortable time coping with the concept of infinity. Over the past century, physicists have had a particularly difficult relationship with the notion of boundlessness. In ...
The evidence keeps flooding in. It now truly appears that the universe is infinite. This is no small piece of news. The implications are enormous. First, though, how do we know? How could we know? It ...
Well, unless you’re Buzz Lightyear, we know that’s impossible; you can’t go beyond what has no end. But the representation of infinity, or the reality of it, makes for some very complex reasoning. In ...
The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research ...
Tom Gliatto reviews the latest TV and movie releases for PEOPLE Magazine. He also writes many of the magazine's celebrity tributes. It s been nearly 35 years since Carl Sagan became a global celebrity ...
The Infinite Galaxy Puzzle features a NASA satellite photograph of the center of the Milky Way, but that’s not what makes it special: it’s the shape of the pieces. They’re modeled after a dissected ...
The other day, my four-year-old son asked me, point blank: —Dad, can you count to infinity? —No son, you can't, it would take forever. —But what's infinity minus three?" —It's infinity, too. —But how ...
It is your destiny to pilot your ship Photon through an array of space junk, left over planet debris and all sorts of wonders from the intergalactic fun, of which you will not be a part.
Consumer electronics encompasses a wide variety of products, from smartphones to appliances to, of course, computers. One new face in recent years has been virtual reality and while the hype around ...