Consider this:

0+0=0=2(0)

0+0+0=0=3(0)

0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0=0=8(0)

0+0+0+...+0=0=∞(0)

So: 0x∞=0 (??????)

Having recently overheard my son and niece playing dare recently, i sat and listened to them 'one up' each other in the usual logical way: dare, double dare, triple dare etc...

eventually it came to 'i dare you times infinity', which was naturally followed by 'i dare you times infinity, plus one!'...

this got me thinking, i was always taught that infinity represented the ultimate highest number that could never be reached.. but, infinity plus one seems like a perfectly natural and logical mathematical equation.

If this IS a perfectly acceptable equation, then surely infinity must be finite? otherwise it would be equal to 'infinity plus one' which, is obviously one larger.

or is this a case of George Orwell popping his head into maths and science with 'All infinities are equal, but some infinities are more equal than others'?

I honestly don't get it. If there was a big bang, then in what vessel or container did that big bang happen.

I've just watched a TV program about the biggest number, the universe and - of course - infinity. It said that a number named "Graham" was so big that there was not enough space in the entire universe to write it down. So if there is a number that actually has and end - which was bigger than the universe - then there can't be an everlasting universe! Or can there?