What is infinity? What is eternity? Is it simply a very human expression of an incomprehensible amount, an unknown amount? Or is it the proposed *, that never ending line? Is there really the fabled stretching *, that endlessly pointing arrow which has no discernible beginning and no predictable end? How can we as humans –with our unexorcisably mathematically driven minds- even begin to understand or make sense of this concept which begets and concludes all concepts? How can we, as simple as we are, even try to wrap our brains around an ever-evolving and never-ending theory which maps the future and fate of every atom that make up that which is space? They say the universe is infinite; so if it is, what is on the other side of our reaches? If there is a never ending amount of stars, planets, and solar systems out there, how many more planets are there like our earth? (See “On The Infinite Universe Theory”) The religious believe that once you die, you live on in the afterlife for eternity. How can it come to pass that there are places where seconds are naught and years are less. How can our thoughts and souls be content with perpetual placid existence?
Limitless …This is another of the words that mean “never-ending.” And though we use it almost every day, we do not realize the full extent of the power behind it. We are always told that the expansion of our world and technologies is limitless, but already we see machines doing things for us that people living a few centuries ago couldn’t have dreamed of. What will happen when we “expand” so much to the point where machines can even think for us? Will the human mind become obsolete? Will what is considered life morph into a perpetual state of non-activity because there is “no need” to do anything?
Psychologists say that the power of the brain is limitless. They say the mind can continue to expand infinitely. So, assuming this is true, wouldn’t it be possible to expand your mind into the 4th dimension? After filling your brain with, and fully understanding, all discernible notions of x d, y d, and z d; would it not be possible to enter t ? After focusing on the succinct difference between the 3 spacial dimensions, if the concept of infinity really exists, we should be able to perceive the clarity of true time. And see, as well as understand, beyond what any man has before.
But even as we hear this, and try to fit this into our schema of everyday life, it seems impossible. We think it seems ludicrous to assume that we can perceive beyond the perceivable. So, as in every philosophical question, we are left back where we started, to make our own assumptions. We must ask ourselves; can what we call infinity be quantified, or is it truly a perpetual power with no boundaries and no end?
