Welcome to the Lectures on Infinity, a series of lectures exploring all my favorite paradoxes and conundrums.
In this second lecture, we explore the concept of supertask—a task involving infinitely many separate actions or steps. We shall play with Thomson’s lamp, turning it on and off infinitely in a finite duration of time, before encountering the dangerous Deal with the Devil. And then infinitely many billiard balls in a sack! Will the Glutton win in the Chocolatier’s game? Let’s find out.
A transcript of this lecture is available.
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This lecture is based on my essay Supertasks.
The essay also appears in my new book, The Book of Infinity.
