It’s an idea straight out of the schoolyard: that you might one day accidentally count so high that you break the laws of math. A new preprint (that has not yet been peer-reviewed) seems to have done ...

Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into ...

How can Einstein’s theory of gravity be unified with quantum mechanics? It is a challenge that could give us deep insights into phenomena such as black holes and the birth of the universe. Now, a new ...

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A new kind of infinity appears to break the rules of how extremely large numbers behave, and could redraw the way the mathematical universe is ordered. It may come as a surprise, but mathematicians ...

Some scientists think quantum mechanics may be working in a lower-dimensional setting, giving us the illusion of our 3-dimensional universe. This idea changes the nature of our perceived reality, ...

Friedmann accepted this new term but pointed out a radical alternative: the universe did not have to be frozen. He argued that Einstein’s static universe was merely a special case and that the cosmos ...