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| Infinite Universe |
There are more than 7 billion people in the world right now, but that is a finite amount.
There are trillions of grains of sand on this planet, but that too is a finite amount.
The reason why I decided to write this blog post today is because a few days ago, I figured out a way to understand infinity using potentiality as oppose to a calculable hypothesis.
The way I was able to do this, was simply by pondering exactly how many different things I could do at any given moment.
Now this can’t be proven scientifically, because it would take an infinite amount of time to do an infinite amount of things. However, rationally it can be grasped through logical faculties.
Here are some examples of the things you can do;
Stand up, sit down, jump, hop on one foot, move your left pinky to the right, move your right pinky to the left, nod, say the word “alchemy”, study alchemy, write a short story, and the list goes on…
How long does it go on for? However long you would like it to, because the point I am making, is that no matter how many hundreds of thousands of things that you can do, there will always be another, and another, and another.
Part Two; Conceptualizing Infinity through mathematics
One way in which humans have tried to conceptualize infinity, is through mathematics. There are certain numbers which we call irrational, that have an infinite amount of decimal places, and never resolve. The most common example of this, is Pi (3.14159….). I have given the first 5 decimal places here, but as you may know, there is no final decimal place in Pi, for the number goes on forever.
To take my previous argument full circle (pun intended), think about the amount of degrees in a circle. The diagram to your left is a standard picture of a circle which contains 360 degrees. If this diagram was on the floor, and you were standing in the center facing 0, there would be a vast array of possible directions you could move. You could move in the direction to your left, which might be near the 90 degree marking. You could move backwards, which would fall near the 180 degree marking. You could move right, which would be right around the 270th degree, and you can also move forward, which is represented by the 0 and 360th degree markers.
