PBS Infinite Series

Stochastic Supertasks (2017x27)

Air date: Aug 10, 2017

What happens when you try to empty an urn full of infinite balls? It turns out that whether the vase is empty or full at the end of an infinite amount of time depends on what order you try to empty it in. Check out what happens when randomness and the Ross-Littlewood Paradox collide.