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Metasyn
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Infinity.
#5512114 - 04/13/06 12:11 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Everywhere you look, there is infinity.
Point a powerful telescope at a blank region of space and you see galaxies and galaxies seemingly without end. Look deep into the atomic structure of matter and there is an dizzying array of sub-sub-atomic particles can be discerned. Our ability to detect infinity is only held back by our limited observing instruments and even more limited sensory organs.
Time goes (we assume) infinitely far in the past and infinitely far into the future.
Cosmology posits an infinite number of parallel dimensions that exist to contain every conceivable combinatorial arrangement of matter and energy.
Even on human scales, everywhere you care to look there are fractal patterns of infinite nature, from the branching of tree limbs to the length of coastlines to the contents of the simplest of mathematic constructs.
In our consciousness, all one has to do is meditate or flood the brain with serotonergic agonists and infinity is there blankly staring you in the face.
Infinity surrounds us in all directions, but we convince ourselves that we are bounded, contained in this world, in these bodies, in these consciousnesses. Clearly we are part of everything that exists and every existed, but for most people that is an uncomfortable thought. Why must we cling to the bounded? What does it take to truly embrace the infinite?
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Re: Infinity. [Re: Metasyn]
#5512151 - 04/13/06 12:19 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Infinity is a strictly mathematical concept. Nothing that physically exists is infinite.
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What does it take to truly embrace the infinite?
A different kind of consciousness. Most people don't have it. I'm fairly certain that I don't have it, because half of what you just posted read like nonsense to me.
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Re: Infinity. [Re: Metasyn]
#5512564 - 04/13/06 02:45 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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What DOES it take to truly embrace the infinite?
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Shroomism
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We do not know what is and is not infinite. As far as we know, space is infinite. I have yet to see any evidence to dispute this.
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Re: Infinity. [Re: Metasyn]
#5513292 - 04/13/06 06:42 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nicely said
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Re: Infinity. [Re: LuNaTiX]
#5513905 - 04/13/06 09:39 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yes, very compelling thoughts...What I find most infinite is the imagination !! Even this though, is still bound to the principals of space and matter? I think recognizing what you are on a practical level is why people feel obliged to confine themeselves. We were meant to explore, imagine if there was a limit to what we could find? We ARE literally bound, but the possibilities remain infinite.
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Re: Infinity. [Re: Metasyn]
#23388970 - 06/27/16 08:21 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Metasyn...!
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Snazz
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The mathematics of fractals give infinite surface area while the size never gets any bigger. Cosmological infinity, like most other examples, is just inferred.
Of course math can point you in a potential direction, but it can also lead you to ridiculous hypothesis like black holes.
Infinity reminds me of Hermetic teachings of the 'Mental Universe' as do some interpretations of quantum theory.
Numbers and decimal places are infinite, but they are metaphysical in nature
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