Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Understanding Infinity

Hello and welcome to this video about Understanding Infinity.

We’ll look at three topic and you might be surprised by the path we’ll take through the “Infinity in Mathematics”, “Infinity of God” and the “Infinity of the World”.

As it is with all my videos you don’t need to have a lot of knowledge in any of these topics (especially not Mathematics), the only thing you need is an open mind and the willingness to use it.

The “Infinity in Mathematics” could also be called the “Unreality of Finite Numbers and Measures”.
And it’s mind-boggling :)
I will take a ruler to show you – and it really doesn’t matter which object we look at. However, the ruler is helpful because it already has numbers and measures to it. Naturally we think that everything can be measured in all its dimensions. So we say that this ruler is 6 inches wide.
However, how real are “6 inches”? If we think about it we’ll see that “6 inches” or any type of measurement, is extremely unreal.
Let me explain with a different question: How real is “the value of the coin”? Well, it doesn’t exist, it is nothing but an institution that was made by humans due to the helpfulness of trade. Only the coin itself is real (or THAT which creates the coin). Same with “6 inches” – it is no real thing. Half of the world doesn’t even use inches but centimeters. But that is nothing but another instituted con-cept as well.
What I want to say is that - in Mathematics and in Reality - the width of this ruler is infinite. There are infinite points in between beginning and end. The funny thing is that half the width of the ruler is infinite as well.
At this point, are we even sure of what it means when we say 6 + 3 = 9? I just got a bit uncertain.
You might already have a glimpse at infinity here...
Why is “part of the whole” still “equal to the whole”? It sounds quite strange to us in the first place, but that is normal since we approach the logic of higher dimensions! We remember that ∞ = 2x∞ = ∞^2 = ∞^∞.
Oh, and ∞/∞ is NOT 1.

Our next topic, the “Infinity of God” starts with a somewhat popular question: if God is truly all-mighty (as everybody says he is), could he create a rock that is that heavy he couldn’t lift it anymore? Of course this question is highly illogical and can’t be answered with the same, but only with higher logic – so let’s try!
First of all, God is NOT a grumpy, old man or any other “separate” being.
At this point let me tell you that any connotations and ideas you have of the word “God” might be in the way of further understand-ing.
We don’t want to explain the Infinite through the WORD “God”… that’s not possible; we need to do it the other way around! We want to peek into the Infinite and then KNOW what IT IS. So, quite often in previous videos, GOD was actually described as IT because it has no preconceived ideas to it. Replace GOD with whatever other word you like – but again - with no preconception, prejudice or connotation.
Some people might find it difficult to follow the thinking for they believe in the absence of a grumpy old man and thus believe in the absence of IT. However, can you be certain to KNOW the absence of IT? Especcially since we already scientifically proved the existence of IT!

OK, so getting past that, what do we assume to know about God?
First of all, God is infinite.
God is all-present (but without acting), all-knowing (which has to much connotation of having an agenda, so all-witnessing is a better word), all-mighty (which again has to much connotation of having an agenda, so all-creating is a better word).

This means that NOTHING IS NOT GOD – and by the way this includes you!

Yet, there’s more we can say: IN THE INFINITY OF IT, EVEN A PART CONTAINS ALL!
So speaking in images, ALL that creates our incredibly huge universe is contained and exists in a small daisy flower AS A WHOLE.
Or - each single grain of sand contains the same Infinity as the whole universe… which leads us to

The Infinity of the World
Now, if we apply our logic from what we learned above, isn’t everthing in the world infinite?

For sure time is, and as you might remember, Time is truly Eternity which doesn’t mean ‘time without end’ but ‘without time’.

Everything happens in the Now – always. Nothing ever happened outside of Now. Now is eternal. You take a photo in the Now, you look at a photo in the Now. When you go for a walk, you leave in the Now and you arrive in the Now. You are born in the Now, you die in the Now.

Imagine a Life-Time being this ruler. Then (normally) we think that our life moves along an imaginary line from birth to death.
However, no matter where you are, you are always in the Now: when you are young, you most commonly experience feelings and thoughts of having your life in front of you. When you’re older, you experience feelings and thoughts of having lived most of your life.

The strange thing is that each arrow you could possibly draw is “You experience feelings and thoughts of created by what IS”.
Each “dot” you can point at is “You in the Now”. Nothing is ever not “You in the Now”.

It’s very similar with Space, and you might remember, Space is truly Infinity which doesn’t mean ‘space without borders’ but ‘without space’.
I feel that there’s so much more to say about this, however, the Infinity of Space was already topic in my previous videos, so please review those videos if you’re interested – and I hope you can forgive me for taking the short route here.

In the end, all that counts is the value you get from thinking about all this stuff. And – for me – it’s not about having fun by talking crazy stuff, but about filling life with wonder and awe.

So tell me, what is the size of your Consciousness? – or how many different emotions could you potentially experience in this moment?

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