About the Author
John D. Barrow is Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Theories of Everything and Impossibility.
Table of Contents
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 Infinitys Accounts
4 Infinity Is Not a Big Number
An Immaculate Misconception
Albert of Saxonys Paradox
Galileos 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
Alls Sad that Ends Bad
6 Infinity Comes in Three Flavours
Triple Top
Lets 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 Thomsons 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
Childhoods 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 Cant Change the Past
Infinity - Where Will It All End?
Notes
Index