Have you ever stood in an apparently endless queue, or been trapped in an everlasting meeting, thinking to yourself “This is taking absolutely forever”? Have you perhaps pondered some other of the seeming “infinities” you might come across, outside of a calculus textbook?

In this whimsical comic, cartoonist Eugenia Viti and her physicist brother Ivan Viti contemplate a few scenarios of pushing the limits of objects from everyday life. They show: the tines of a fork multiplying until you have a spoon; a single window morphing into a greenhouse; a staircase transforming to a ramp; and finally a traffic jam turning a road into a car park.

What other example of limits approaching infinity in our day-to-day can you think of? Drop us an e-mail at pwld@ioppublishing.org or send us a Tweet at @PhysicsWorld to let us know.

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