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andrewducker) wrote2012-07-17 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-07-17 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2012
- How Emma Sky went from anti-war academic to governor of one of Iraq's most volatile regions
- Screen Display Calculator - how far away should your TV be? And what size?
- Eight radical solutions to the childcare issue
- What did the Persians think of Alexander the Great?
- Free access to British scientific research within two years
- 7 reasons why I’m against DevoPlus / DevoMax
- Merely visiting a newspaper website can be a breach of copyright.
- How many infinities are there?
- The three options the Church Of England faces over same-sex marriage (well worth reading)
- Fifty Shades of Babe: Duke Nukem Reads E. L. James
- Facebook Engineer Responds to Imgur Block with Epic Reddit Apology
- US Security Agents At Heathrow For Olympics
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I would answer "there are *at least* two infinities" -- the ones you state (aleph nought and c). We do not know if aleph one is the same as c -- and it may require extra axioms in our chosen set theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis
Incidentally, Rudy Rucker's terrific but weird "White Light or What Is Cantor's Continuum Problem?" addresses the issue in a scifi way with lots of drugs and giant talking cockroaches.