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  • ardcarp
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11102

    Infinity.......

    Every so often I listen to a past edition of BBC4's In Our Time. (All are archived.) Today I chose the programme about Infinity. Some IOTs are better than others, depending on how Melvyn Bragg stimulates...or otherwise...the proceedings.
    One might have supposed that his guests, being mathematicians, would be somewhat staid. But far from it. We had considerable flights of fancy, poetry, knowledge of the ancient world, even Music.

    Worth a listen, IMO.

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the nature and existence of mathematical infinity.
  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 36861

    #2
    It usually goes on for too long.................

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    • Pabmusic
      Full Member
      • May 2011
      • 5537

      #3
      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
      It usually goes on for too long.................
      Seems like it'll never end...

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        #4
        Originally posted by Pabmusic View Post
        Seems like it'll never end...
        Don't start ...
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Pabmusic
          Full Member
          • May 2011
          • 5537

          #5
          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          Don't start ...
          Oh dear! Sorry!

          How can I make it up?

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          • Pabmusic
            Full Member
            • May 2011
            • 5537

            #6
            Here's 16 pages of sackcloth & ashes...

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            • Pabmusic
              Full Member
              • May 2011
              • 5537

              #7
              I feel so bad about this...

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              • Pabmusic
                Full Member
                • May 2011
                • 5537

                #8
                How will I ever get over it?...

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                • Pabmusic
                  Full Member
                  • May 2011
                  • 5537

                  #9
                  Oh dear...

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                  • Pabmusic
                    Full Member
                    • May 2011
                    • 5537

                    #10
                    [Loud gunshot offstage]...

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      #11
                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      Don't start ...
                      Actually - is this true? Can it be said that "infinity" has "no beginning" as well as being endless?

                      Perhaps I need to listen to the programme ....
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • Pabmusic
                        Full Member
                        • May 2011
                        • 5537

                        #12
                        ... [after very long pause] ...

                        I've just accidentally set off the "very loud gunshot" firework we bought for New Year...

                        Now, what was I saying?

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                        • DracoM
                          Host
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 12817

                          #13
                          They badly need to replace Bragg and give it to Tom Sutcliffe.

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                          • LMcD
                            Full Member
                            • Sep 2017
                            • 7678

                            #14
                            If we're not careful, there'll be no end to this thread.

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                            • Frances_iom
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 2407

                              #15
                              Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                              If we're not careful, there'll be no end to this thread.
                              There is of course the countable infinities especially for the serial musicians - again with no end to them, unfortunately, but at least they can go thro their required sequences

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