The spiritual beauty of infinity

When we think about infinity, there’s one thing that often comes to our minds.

It’s the infinity of our universe.

That, no matter how far out there you go, you’ll never reach an end.

Let’s define that distance as a series of numbers like this: N = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, …

That keeps on until infinity. And the total set of those numbers is N.

Those numbers could then be subdivided into their spaces in between. So, you could take 0.5 “hops” along that line. And suddenly you end up with an infinity, that’s two times the size of the original N infinity.

You get: 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, …

So, there can be infinities, that are larger than infinity itself.

What, if for example, you were not to take 0.5 hops but smaller ones along that line? What if you were to take 0.001 hops? What if you were to take (1 / infinity) hops? Well, the infinities keep growing. In the end, you come up with an infinity that is another infinity times infinity.

That seems odd, doesn’t it?

Well, it becomes even stranger.

If we look at the universe through the lenses of the infinitesimally small, it becomes this strange world of “chance”. It’s future is not yet decided. But yet in this superposition of both true and false. Both 0 and 1. And yet, neither.

Our universe truly is a strange place to live in. It’s a world of wonders. Every time we think “but now we understand it”, it has the habit of throwing yet another mystery at our heads. Every time we think we hold the sacred truth in our hands, it slips away only to reappear when we have shifted our mindset.

One last quite mind boggling fact is that there’s a higher infinity between 0 and 1 than in all the imaginable numbers. Just imagine the original infinity line which started with 0, then 1, then 2 and then went on to infinity. What if you were to modify that one a bit?

What, if you added a “0.” on their left and then a (infinity — n) amount of 0s followed then all the original numbers (n)?

It would just give you an ascending series of all the values between 0 and 0.999… (standing for infinity here)

But what about the “1”?

Where is that in that example?

It seems to appear out of no where. Somehow, that new infinity is the old infinity plus one. But plus one what?

I think that story tells us a little something about our universe and time itself.

If we think about 0 as the beginning of time and the 1 as our current here and now (however we may define that), that 1 becomes the ever shifting now trough time. Infinity is now. And every “now” that comes.