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Imaginary numbers are more real than infinity.
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Does this mean the concept of infinity requires an infinite number of infinities?
Informally, yes. Formally, no. There is no cardinal sufficient such that every cardinal can fit in a set with that cardinality. Isn't that fascinating? There's too many infinities for us to mathematically express how many infinities there are.
I believe so. I wonder what is the ordinal of the set of ordinals.