Last night I was reading Joy of x by Steven Strogatz and in the book Strogatz mentions "In

February 2010 I received an e-mail from a woman named Kim Forbes. Her six-year-old son,
Ben, had asked her a math question she couldn't answer, and she was hoping I could help". He
then mentioned the email from Kim which says "Today is the 100th day of school. He was very
excited and told me everything he knows about the number 100, including that 100 was an even
number. He then told me that 101 was an odd number and 1 million was an even number, etc. He
then paused and asked: "Is infinity even or odd?"" Strogatz then writes "I explained to Kim that
infinity is neither even nor odd. It's not a number in the usual sense, and it doesn't obey the rules
of arithmetic. All sorts of contradictions would follow if it did. For instance, I wrote, "if infinity
were odd, 2 times infinity would be even. But both are infinity! So the whole idea of odd and
even does not make sense for infinity." Kim then replies "Thank you. Ben was satisfied with that
answer and kind of likes the idea that infinity is big enough to be both odd and even." Strogatz
then writes "Although something got garbled in translation (infinity is neither odd nor even, not
both), Ben's rendering hints at a larger truth. Infinity can be mind-boggling." What people have
always failed to understand since the beginning of time is what the real meaning of infinity is.
Supposedly, infinity goes on forever has no beginning, and no end. This has made me come to
the conclusion that maybe infinity does not have a real value, just like the number i. If you think
about it, every number that you can think of can tell you when or where something ends or
begins besides an imaginary or complex number like i, 1+i, etc.
As an example, if you ask someone what they had done recently say within the duration of a day,
they will probably tell you what happened in their lives say 2 hours ago. Every time the number
of hours, days, weeks, months or years ago an event will have occurred in someones life, it will
always be a real number like 1, 2, etc. Another example is if you are given directions to a friends
house, a restaurant etc. You will be told (assuming that you will be driving, biking or walking in
a straight line) to go say 10 miles in the eastward direction. 10 is of course a real number, but
with the amount of possibilities of random numbers of miles or kilometers you will have to travel
to get to your favorite sushi place depending on where you are, you will never run into a number
10i. Drive 10i miles in the eastward direction would make absolutely no sense. Now, another
conclusion I have made is that since on a Cartesian coordinate plane with where the x and y axes
both only have real numbers, you will encounter no numbers like i, 1+i, etc. Maybe this would
be the same reason you wouldn't encounter infinity, it wouldn't represent a point, therefore it
could not represent any change from another location (examples A, A, etc), any location, or any
relative location to a possible existing location. And furthermore this would mean if a point
represented say your house, and you were at another point, you would never be expected to drive
an imaginary number of miles in an imaginary number of minutes, because it would have no
meaning, as well suggesting that infinity would follow under the same rule. Here is an example,
where the x and y axes have real numbers. Fred's house is located at (0,3) and Carl's house is at
(6,8) find the distance.

If our units are miles the distance is about 7.81 miles. Which I calculated using the distance
formula

Now, say Carl wanted to visit Fred, you can imagine a line going across the line from Carl to
Freds house in about 12 minutes (but youll probably prefer to use seconds and pretend their
minutes) since there are 2 points that exist on the plane representing Carl and Freds houses, it is
possible for Fred to actually travel to Carls house at his rate of about 39 miles per hour without
the idea that he would have to find out a clever way to find an imaginary point that does not exist
in an imaginary amount of time that has no meaning. But in this case there is a beginning and an
end. The beginning is at Carls house, and the end is at Freds house, plus there is change
involving travelling between these two locations.
However, there is a cool trick which you can use to solve this same problem using complex
numbers; this will involve using a Cartesian coordinate plane with a real axis and an imaginary
axis. The imaginary axis (b term) and the real axis (a term), where the amount of units you will
have travelled on either axis is going to be your a and b terms.

Look at the graph above, you can see that the length of leg a is 6 and the length of leg b is 5. You
can do this by taking subtracting the differences of the x-coordinates in (0,3) and (6,3) and the
differences of the y-coordinates in (6,3) and (6,8) and then taking the absolute values.

These are the lengths of the legs a and b, a=6 and b=5. Now substitute a and b in the formula

And to prove this works besides the fact that I got the same result when using the distance
formula. Use the Pythagorean Theorem and then take the square roots of both sides. Then write
sqrt(c^2)=c, which is the length of the hypotenuse, since the hypotenuse represents the distance
from Freds house to Carls house.

So this would suggest that infinity could be a number like i or 6+5i where the absolute value is a
real number, but where itself, like the number 6+5i would not represent a distance. The actual
distance travelled on the imaginary axis in any preferred unit (miles, kilometers, etc.) is the b
term which is a real number. Maybe infinity is one of those numbers on the imaginary axis like i,
2i, etc. or a number that represents a point like (6,5) or (1,1), etc. on the complex plane. On top
of that, if infinity were an imaginary or complex number, it would however not be even or odd
(again proving Kim Forbes incorrect) because even and odd only applies to integers -1, 0, 1, etc.
All this is only a concept, but the true meaning of infinity is a math problem that I will be
working on for years after the beginning of my mathematical career which I plan to start in
February 2020.