From Bryn Glover, Kirkby Malzeard, North Yorkshire, UK
Having grappled with infinity for as long as I can recall, your cover line, “A new answer to the largest question of all”, sent me eagerly seeking the article. Alas, I was disappointed.
The big problem, as I see it, lies in attempting to analyse infinity as if it were an actual, tangible mathematical entity – an exceedingly big number. It isn’t. Infinity is a convenient concept, in the same way that i, or an imaginary number, is a convenient concept. It is a tool invented for a job. It performs its tasks admirably, but it needs to have been eliminated by the end of any calculation, otherwise the conclusion is meaningless.
