> When you say "every number n there is a cube with n on it",
> what does "every" mean.
To be more precise, every finite number.
> Does every number include infinity?
No, in these sorts of discussions infinity is never considered to be a number. You need explicitly to be discussing transfinite arithmetic, and we're not.
> Or should not not consider infinity to be a number?
> If the latter, this is probably where I went wrong.
Absolutely you should not be thinking of infinity as a number.