Antonino Zichichi
L'Infinito

To reach the Andromeda Galaxy, traveling at the speed of light, it would take 2 million years. An enormous distance, but not Infinite. Cosmic space is vast, two hundred thousand billion billion Km, but it is finite. If everything around us is finite, why debate the Infinite? Don't ask me! The answers can be found in the essay. It is developed in such a way as to be understandable to a good portion of readers. De Chirico, Escher, Bach, Mahler, Leopardi, and Ungaretti will be mentioned.

Question 1: how large is a small piece of Infinity?

The immediacy of Zichichi, author of various discoveries in the study of fundamental forces, will reveal how Infinity (and the different levels of Infinity) is among the most captivating inventions in the immanent. The language is straightforward and direct, requiring no deep scientific or mathematical studies.

Question 2: with infinity, what is 3x3?

The book is structured in 3 parts.

In the first, the reality of the world is explained, totally consisting of finite structures. It will be elucidated that Space and Time are not Infinite, just like Masses, electric charges, and subnuclear charges. The total Mass of the Cosmos corresponds to ten thousand billion billion billion billion billion tons. However, it is supposed that the figure is 100 times higher. It's the problem of the “Missing Mass,” meaning all the objects not yet identified, but which are believed to be discovered. In any case, it's an enormous number, but not Infinite.

Question 3: how many times can one divide a millimeter?

The second will guide the reader to the fundamental concepts on which the construction of Infinity is based. Crucial is the figure of Cantor and the Continuum Hypothesis. His intellectual adventure will be narrated through a fable. Another essential figure is that of Gödel.

He will bid farewell to Mathematical Certainty. In 1931, he will discover, in the realm of Logic on which Arithmetic is built, the existence of Statements or Theorems on which no decision is possible.Indecidability: an unprecedented achievement in mathematical thought.

One will travel through the various Infinities, up to the Absolute Infinity (He who made the world). Inaccessible and undeterminable mathematically. An absolutely abstract reality, yet conceived with total logical rigor. No human intellect will ever conquer and fully understand the Great Design, so-called by Galilei, Newton, Einstein, and Planck.

New laws and phenomena will be unveiled, but never everything will be understood. He who made the world has given us the privilege to enter the true domain of switches, where the Fundamental Laws of Nature are preserved.

Question 4: adding Infinity many times, what result is obtained?

Finally, the roots of this tremendous conquest by human intellect will be examined. The most articulated section, including mathematical formulas. A long journey towards the conquest of Infinity. Venturing into numbers: real, integer, rational, irrational, and their powers of Infinity, arriving with Infinity into physics.

A1: a piece, even a small one, of Infinity is always as large as all of Infinity.

A2: with Infinity 3x3, it is not 9, but always 3.

A3: a millimeter can be divided an Infinite number of times.

A4: adding Infinity many times, the result does not change.

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