The Discovery of Infinity
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | The Discovery of Infinity |
| Author(s) | Glenn Borchardt |
| Published in | The Scientific Worldview |
| Date | 2025-10-14 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | infinity, infinite universe |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"The Discovery of Infinity" is an article by Glenn Borchardt published on 14 October 2025 on The Scientific Worldview, reprinting a post of 1 May 2019.
It answers a question from David de Hilster as president of the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society: how Borchardt first came to think the universe infinite. He describes fourteen years from 1962 on laboratory and field work in soil science, geology and chemistry, an insistence on logic and a dislike of contradiction, and general-science reading that included an article daring to suggest space was not perfectly empty. The same text appeared on Beyond Mainstream as Finding Infinity.