[Sneaky_Pete]

I don't know if any of you guys watched this, it was on BBC2 at 9pm on Wednesday 10th Feb. Here's the synopsis:

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.

Man, this totally fucked up my mind. Maybe it's the fact that satan himself does the voice over, or just the sheer complexity of infinity, but either way it was both interesting and scary. Here's a link to it on BBC iPlayer if you missed it and want to take a look:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ty_and_Beyond/

I would really encourage anyone to watch it, and let me know about what you thought if you already have!

[Agent Cobra]

:aaaaa:

Talk about mindfuck

[Haxxer]

Holy shit, is a googol really that much?

[Sneaky_Pete]

Haxxer posted:

Holy shit, is a googol really that much?

Graham's number made me laugh. It's so huge that he only knows the final number...which is seven.

[Haxxer]

I knew about googol, but I didn't think it like this

[TBleader]

MIIINDFUUUUUCKKK :psypop:

[Haxxer]

"A googol plex is so big, that the entire visible universe wouldn't be able to fit it, even if you wrote it on every atom."

That is big.

[Sneaky_Pete]

I don't understand why people would want to comprehend a number that big? Does it have a purpose?

[benzi2k7]

Sneaky_Pete posted:

I don't understand why people would want to comprehend a number that big? Does it have a purpose?

Yeh.

To fuck minds.

[Haxxer]

Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...74DFE1A0371DE4

[strong_bad]

Lol, my dad torrented this and we watched it

We were like "...wut"