Infinite within Finite!
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This idea came to me on the PI day, that is celebrated on 14th March, as the date itself says 3.14, the first three digits of PI. PI, an irrational number in mathematics, which goes like 3.14159… non-repetitive and never ending decimal number. Simply going to infinity. Yet, we all know from basic geometry, that area of circle is PI* r², where r is the radius of circle. Isn’t it interesting to see that an infinity is confined within a finite? Or to rephrase in a better way, how cool is it to observe an infinite entity defining a finite entity? Let’s draw a circle on a piece of paper and find the area it covers, or the circumference i.e. the length of distance around it. It can be defined in terms of a term, PI, that in itself is never ending and infinite in nature. I find this phenomenon quite intriguing where a finite thing can be defined in terms of, or in other words, confined or constrained by an infinite entity. More intriguing is how Universe is clever enough in exhibiting this law, this essence in other things as well.
A human mind of infinite potential constrained within finite human life.

How many years can a human live for? At max 80 or 100. But, in this small time, it creates a legacy of its own. These legacies are the strong and powerful ideas, a human mind can create, not just the scientific discoveries of understanding Universe, like those of Einstein and Newton, but almost all kinds of professions that exist in the today’s world. In this finite period, a time-period non-existential with respect to, let’s say age of Universe, 13.8 billion years, or comparing to Earth, 4.5 Billion years, or even comparing it to the age of Himalaya, one of the recently formed mountain in Earth’s history, 65 Million years, a human mind is capable of conjuring ideas that are immortals and act as an extension of the non-existential human being. Why I mention the word “Non-existential” every time is because I want to emphasize on this point, how even with such non-existential nature at one point, what wonderful capability we humans possess and have been doing so many remarkable things till the date. This capability of infinite potentials refer to the vast knowledge and technology that homo-sapiens have managed to gather in such a small amount of time of existence. The aim of these lines is not to cherish the accomplishments of the intellectual beings, neither is the aim to diminish the achievements of mankind by comparing it with the infinite and never ending scale of cosmos. The aim is to understand, to comprehend who we are, where we are and where we are heading towards?
As it goes, a human being with a limited lifetime has so many things to do. The very ability of a conscious mind to choose “what to do” and “what to think” is the gift, we rarely comprehend. It is interesting to think about the number of things, a human can learn, professions it can carry on, the moments it can creates and ideas it can generate. There is no limit to it. These things are infinite and never ending. Homo sapiens, mere mortals on a floating rock in space, trying to create a dent in this cosmos with all their abilities, are like the concept of PI, an infinite within finite.
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