Physicists have created a quantum version of a famous thought experiment: the so-called Hilbert Hotel, which is always full and yet a vacancy can always be found for additional unexpected guests. Back ...

Find out about an old paradox dreamed up by mathematicians in the roaring twenties. It takes a simple (and hypothetical) hotel and uses it to peer into the eyes of the infinite. After a long, tedious ...

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In a thought experiment first proposed in the 1920s, the Hilbert’s Hotel has an infinite number of rooms and helps demonstrate some of the strange properties of infinity.

In a thought experiment first proposed in the 1920s, the Hilbert’s Hotel has an infinite number of rooms and helps demonstrate some of the strange properties of infinity. NOVA is available to stream ...