Human knowledge cannot understand infinity. It is possible to conceive the idea through examples, such as self

-nesting and counting to infinity in an infinite amount of time, but none of these may be experienced by humans. If you wanted to teach a child who had no experience of the number two, you could give him or her two toys. They would then have the experience of two as being one and one together. The experience of numbers becomes more complex as the numbers increase.

Humans have a difficult time with the concept of numbers greater than twenty. We can visualize in our heads three people, but picturing 1,000 people is difficult. In trying, we will picture a lot of people, but how do we know that there are 1,000 and not 900. The reason is humans have no experience with a number that large. Trying to visualize infinity in our heads is impossible. Imagine performing an act an infinite amount of times, for instance running, is not possible. As Suber states, “We only experience the chunked, finite meter we traversed, in the chunked finite second, not the infinitude of dimensionless points inside them.”

Even though, humans cannot truly understand infinity does not mean that it cannot or does not exist. For me, the concept of infinite time seems possible. The existe

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