This paradox – that there are always more balls in the box, but yet they end up in the drawer – is caused by our expectation that infinity behaves like a really, really big number. But infinity is not a number. Infinity is nowhere to be found on the number line. People seem to have the idea that if you keep counting up along the number line past bigger and bigger numbers, in the end, the numbers just give up. They can’t be bothered to go on, and there’ll be an infinity sign (∞) there to mark the end of the number line. This is not the case. There is always a bigger number. Infinity is not
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