Infinite Realities iii - Unknown, Unknowable and Infinite Realities
November 19th 2007 10:16
Can we conceive an infinite reality? This question requires a practical type of answer.
On our day-to-day do we come across infinite realities?
When I look into the sky of Australia I think it’s infinite, but I don’t really have a proof. On the other hand, someone said the grains of sand in a beach were infinite, but I think they are finite. How about the number of oxygen atoms in our earth’s atmosphere? Let’s see.
When you are in a nice sandy beach and catch a handful of sand you might think that counting every grain in it is madness. And worse counting the grains of sand in the entire beach. The question I ask is this: does that mean the beach sand grains are infinite in number?
Suppose you could delimit the beach with precision and then build a sand grain counting machine. Would you then not know the exact number of sand grains in that beach?
If you look into the earth from space you will see that it is self-contained, so the total number of grains of sand in it should be knowable and countable. You should not confuse practicality with concept. The number of grains of sand on earth is just unknown, not infinite.
How about counting the number of atoms of oxygen on our earth’s atmosphere? Considering that they are made exclusively of energy and that they constantly exchange that energy with other atoms, their number would be unknowable.
This is so until someone could come up with a method to freeze up the entire atmosphere and then, by finger, count all the oxygen atoms. Then their number would be known and would be revealed.
The number of atoms of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere would never be infinite. If not, again look at the earth from space: there is only so much atmosphere around it. They must then be of a finite number. They just are, in normal circumstances, of an unknown number.
With regards to the sky of Australia, I personally think it is infinite. I have approached this theme in the series The Duoverse and the Nature of the Universe, published in Really Long Link If we could send a spacecraft with unlimited capabilities in straight line, it would go on forever. This reality would then be infinite.
The question then would be whether we could measure it. And also whether we could conceive such an infinite reality. One problem of practicalities and one problem of cognition.
On our day-to-day do we come across infinite realities?
When I look into the sky of Australia I think it’s infinite, but I don’t really have a proof. On the other hand, someone said the grains of sand in a beach were infinite, but I think they are finite. How about the number of oxygen atoms in our earth’s atmosphere? Let’s see.
When you are in a nice sandy beach and catch a handful of sand you might think that counting every grain in it is madness. And worse counting the grains of sand in the entire beach. The question I ask is this: does that mean the beach sand grains are infinite in number?
Suppose you could delimit the beach with precision and then build a sand grain counting machine. Would you then not know the exact number of sand grains in that beach?
If you look into the earth from space you will see that it is self-contained, so the total number of grains of sand in it should be knowable and countable. You should not confuse practicality with concept. The number of grains of sand on earth is just unknown, not infinite.
How about counting the number of atoms of oxygen on our earth’s atmosphere? Considering that they are made exclusively of energy and that they constantly exchange that energy with other atoms, their number would be unknowable.
This is so until someone could come up with a method to freeze up the entire atmosphere and then, by finger, count all the oxygen atoms. Then their number would be known and would be revealed.
The number of atoms of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere would never be infinite. If not, again look at the earth from space: there is only so much atmosphere around it. They must then be of a finite number. They just are, in normal circumstances, of an unknown number.
With regards to the sky of Australia, I personally think it is infinite. I have approached this theme in the series The Duoverse and the Nature of the Universe, published in Really Long Link If we could send a spacecraft with unlimited capabilities in straight line, it would go on forever. This reality would then be infinite.
The question then would be whether we could measure it. And also whether we could conceive such an infinite reality. One problem of practicalities and one problem of cognition.
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