Questions of infinity are some of the most difficult and incomprehensible known to man. For a subject which has its roots in the subject of mathematics which itself is based on the principles of logic we have in the infinite a topic which is in a class of its own. Few agree on what infinity is; it divides mathematicians, philosophers and scientists.

Is it a number, a concept, an existing thing and of all the types of infinity is there one which is truly infinite? There are many paradoxes surrounding infinity, not least the one of understanding infinity. If something is truly infinite is it possible to define it? And if we cannot define it then how can we claim to understand it? Yet we seem to have some grasp of it, yet the more we get to know the infinite the clearer it becomes that we probably do not know it at all. The infinite is a subject of minefields for the unwary, but in the attempt at understanding everything the infinite is central to everything.

Is time eternal, does space go on forever? Why is so easy to accommodate an infinitely full busload of people in a hotel with infinite bedrooms even though the hotel is full? And is God and infinity the same thing?

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