Désir d'infini

TABLE OF CONTENTS EXTRACT • • The unbearable strangeness of the infinite: The infinite in art - The fractal structures of the infinite - Aristotle and the potential infinite - God and the infinite - The surprising properties of infinite series...• The quest for the mathematical infinite: Cantor, the master of the infinite - Music and irrational numbers - Two well-known irrational numbers: pi and the golden number... • The vacillation of the universe between the finite and the infinite: A world made up of atoms - If God is infinite, why wouldn’t the universe also be so? - The mystery of night-time darkness - The geometry of space and perspective in art - Einstein’s dynamic space... • The infinite nature of the universe depends on its contents: luminous matter, dark matter and dark energy: Cosmic mirages and a universe dominated by dark matter - The energy of the void - The Higgs particle - The light of the depths of time - The accelerating universe and dark energy...• The infinite and eternal renewal: Man becomes eternal thanks to his unlimited number of doubles - Borges and the avatars of the infinite... • The infinite of the multiverse: Quantum mechanics and parallel universes - Parallel universes and free will - Is consciousness necessary for a single and unique universe to be chosen?  - A non-start to the universe? - Brane-universes and the real - String theory and parallel holographic universes... • Living with the multiverse and the infinite: A large universe of life and consciousness - Ethics in an infinite universe - Eternal life and the sociology of immortality...