An Infinity is a amount that is not plausible by
ANYTHING to count. Also it is not a number. Just an amount.
obviously you don't know set theory
There is many kinds of infinity! Here is one:
Let's call the empty set "0"
Definition A: the "successor function" S(x) = x ∪ {x}
Definition B: a "natural number" is 0 or the successor of a number (here "natural number" should be more formally "Von Neumann Ordinal")
I define 1 to be S(0). By definition B, 1 is a natural number.
I define 2 to be S(S(0)) = S(1). By definition B, 2 is a natural number.
I define 3 to be S(S(S(0))) = S(S(1)) = S(2). By definition B, 2 is a natural number.
etc.
There exists a set "omega" define as the following:
- 0 is member of omega
- for all x, if x is member of omega, then S(x) is also member of omega
Omega can be visualized as the "limit" of 0,1,2,3,4,...,n-1,n,n+1,n+2,...
I now define "ordinal" as following:
- 0 is an ordinal
- The successor of any ordinal is an ordinal
- The limit of a sequence of ordinals is an ordinal
- If an ordinal A is a member of an ordinal B, then "B > A" and "A < B"
- Given an ordinal A and an ordinal B, if neither of them contains the other as an element, then "A = B"
Note that all non-natural-numbers ordinals are "infinite"
From there you can create ordinals such that omega-plus-one, omega-plus-two, etc until omega-times-two, omega-times-omega, and so on.
Unlimited possibilities! And it is important to know that there is _no_ largest ordinal
There is many kinds of ordinals, such as "countable ordinals", "uncountable ordinals" (e.g. ordinals that has as many elements as there is real numbers, or even more elements), (non-)recursive ordinals, admissible ordinals, etc.
"Omega" is probably what is the closest of the common idea of "infinity", but some ordinals are much, MUCH greater than tha
Proof that there is no "largest ordinal":
Let X be the largest ordinals. By definition, S(X) > X, thus X is no longer the largest ordinal. So X can't exist, it is paradoxical
I can't explain you why (in simple words), but I can prove you that the does NOT exist any "absolute infinity" (because it is possible to associate ANY quantity to an ordinal, e.g. by associating it to the quantity of elements inside that ordinal)
So no, "infinity + 1" is not equal to infinity, it's bigger =3