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Both physicists and
religious leaders incorporate infinity when describing reality.
Physicists claim that the universe is infinite in its size, while
religious leaders claim that god is infinite in his power and his
wisdom. But infinity can exist only in mathematics and in
imaginations. We have no problems in imagining infinity. That is
because compared to the universe, we are so small and compared to
god, we are so lacking, and compared to the age of the universe, our
life span is so short. Many physicists agree with religious leaders
that there is no beginning of time. They both claim that time is
infinite.
It is easy to imagine time to be infinite, because our
fleeting moment of reality is so very short and we move so very
slowly compared to the speed of light. Time exists only as a man-made
concept of measuring motion. Man, for all intents and purposes, is
motionless, and lives and dies at the same place and the same time in
the vast universe where he is born.
It is also easy to
imagine space to be infinite, because the space we find ourselves in
on the earth is so very small compared to the size of the universe.
Space exists only as a frame of reference for measuring position.
Man, for all intents and purposes, lives on a 2 dimensional finite
surface without any edges and without a center. This is because we
are stuck on a very large extending film that is insignificantly
thin, the surface of the sphere, our earth. Stuck on the ground, we
can choose any direction, and be able to travel in that direction
without ever reaching an edge. This is an illusion of infinity.
In
that light, the entire universe can be looked on as if it occupies a
relatively thin shell of a finite area of a relatively large sphere.
This shell is without any edges or a center.
Its 2 inner surfaces are
like mirrors reflecting all light in between. As we look at the sky,
we see its vast extension within the shell. As we look directly up,
out of the shell, light is reflected and is guided and kept within
the shell.
There is no edge or center to the universe just like
there is no edge or center to our earth's surface. Not having an
edge or center is an illusion of infinity.
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