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I am fascinated by infinity, mainly because it's a wonderland of provably bizarre but true counter intuitive concepts (like Schrodingers cat or Einsteins time dilation effect) and such things are always interesting. So, I plan to embark on a short series of infinity related blogs.
I will start with a wonderfully evocative description of eternity (the "time" manifestation of infinity). Unfortunately I do not know who came up with it so I cannot give a proper credit. An internet search appears to credit different people but none with any apparent authority so I will put it down to that well known genius "anon"!
"Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun."
This description of a minute fraction of eternity is so large that we can hardly take it in. Here's a great article titled Putting time into perspective that nicely presents some ideas about why.