Commentary: Infinity of the universe

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MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
11-12-2003
Commentary: Infinity of the universe

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM

MELISSA BLOCK, host:

NASA has been getting a message from the universe and it's saying `I am not infinite.' That seems to be early news from a satellite known as WMAP. It's up there hunting for clues about the big questions scientists always ask. The answers interest cosmologist and commentator Janna Levin.

JANNA LEVIN:

Not even mathematicians wanted to believe in infinity. In the 1880s, Georg Cantor, the Russian-born mathematician, was the first to deeply ...

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