Project 3: Parts 1/2 – Alec Freytag

For this project, I want to explore the concept of infinity. This is a concept that has come up many times throughout my math and physics classes and used to be something that I just viewed as a number. But as I have explored further and begun to understand more of what infinity represents, I have been fascinated that there are arguments about what infinity actually represents, and whether a true infinity actually exists. Even Aristotle said, “Every infinity is potential”. I believe this would be a very cool topic to explore because of the wide range of things in everyday life that we use infinity to describe. I think there are also a lot of different forms and shapes I could include to represent various occurrences of infinity. Infinity comes into play with things like:

1) Black holes, 2) Numbers, 3) Fractals, 4) Two mirrors facing each other, 5) Time, 6) Space, 7) John Wallis (Invented the symbol for infinity that we see today), 8) Pi, 9) Dividing by 0, 10) Singularities