WITH A 5 YEARS OLD BOY
"Numbers are not infinite."
"They are because you can repeat the same set of numbers—1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9—as many
time, as you want."
"What about zero?"
"I think zero is the infinite."
"What about zero?"
"I think zero is the infinite."
"Exactly, because you need space, and numbers are
written on space. Is space infinite?"
"No."
"You just said yes. Well, if your answer is no to infinite, numbers can't be infinite."
"Wait, you can pass on your set of numbers to someone else and make them
infinite. The air is more dynamic. It erases and forgets faster than the space you are talking about."
"They will end the day you die, or the day you stop
pronouncing them."
"No, if that happens, another person can keep
pronouncing them until and so on."
"Will that be worthy?"
"— definitely, it will prove something, although I
don’t know what."
"Will that be worthy?"
"Now, you are infinite."
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