Space, Time and Stuff 1
I’ve recently heard a news broadcaster use the phrase ‘to infinity and beyond’. At first, I wondered if we were becoming so desperate to be overdramatic that we were resorting to absolutely absurd phrases. Then it was pointed out to me that it was a quote from the film Toy Story. At least that made sense of the absurdity. After all, we all know that, by definition, infinity has no boundaries. It doesn’t even have a centre, because any point you choose within infinity, has infinity stretching away from it in every direction. Hence, no centre.
The human brain, understandably, has real trouble visualising the concept of infinity, but perhaps part of the reason is that we simply don’t want to believe in it. So, for a moment, let’s forget the Big Bang theory, and any other theories about space, and let’s imagine the universe is infinite.
Now, here we have a tiny blue planet spinning through a tiny solar system within a tiny Milky Way galaxy which is part of the tiny universe, as far as our best telescopes see at the moment. I say tiny because that part of the universe compared to infinity is nothing. You simply can’t compare any area or volume to infinity. There is no proportion or percentage. Technically, there is no comparison. The best you could manage would be nothing. And if you magnified that area of known space by a million, or even by a million billion, the best comparison would still be nothing.
Now, running around on that tiny blue planet is a parasitic species that calls itself the human race and they think everything is about them.
No wonder they don’t want to consider the possibility of infinity.
Anything but infinity.
Yep, Just my thoughts. Nope, not much research.