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Bluelighter
OK... I'm probably insane, but I'm about to ask a question that is going to make everyone's brain itch... Ok when you think about time, it is true that at any given moment there are an uncountable number of things that can happen. The kicker is that a single moment in time does not "take up" any time... In otherwords, it is like a point... dimensionless... And yet there is an infinity of possibilities that could happen... (Assuming that the Universe never ends...) OK Im gonna explain this visually later, but for now, go a little deeper with me... Has anyone else noticed the pattern that matter follows... An object is made up of molecules which are made up of elements which are made up of atoms which are made up of electrons, neutrons and Protons. All of these go down to quarks, and (in theory) get infinately smaller... Ok... The plot thickens... Objects are on continents which are on worlds which are in solar systems which are in galaxies which are in... You get the picture... Matter gets infinately bigger and smaller at the same time... It goes on infinately in both directions... OK time to make your brain itch some more... Now think about time... First we will think one dimensionally... Picture a 1D time line. We all know that it goes in the negative and positive directions infinately...( similar to matter, but that is not the half of it... It has another simularity... Remember we're still in 1D... Wait till I try to explain the really tricky part... Lets say you go from 0 to 1. you can divide it by 2, again and again forever... You can do this with (almost) any number no matter how small... Now we're getting to my "real" question... Can you have a dimensionless point that can be infinately divided... I think I need to explain this a little better (even though we're still in 1D) If you can take any amount of time and divide it by 2(or infinity for that matter) forever, why can't you take a single instance in time... Like if you froze it, and divide it by infinity forever... Now my question is about to go 3D, so if you aren't a math person you might as well get out the Advil... Lets go back to matter... OK... If time and Matter are simular to each other... (that's a big if) Try to picture the concept that I talked about in 3 dimensions... Im not even going to try to explain it... Well I'll try... Imagine a box. (Props to SpecialKNY here... I had thought of it before, but he thought of it independantly of me so I have to give him credit)) Inside of each box there is an infinity of boxes. Inside of each of those boxes, there is another infinity of boxes, and inside of each of those... You get the picture... Now try to picture a kind of tree with branches that connect all of the boxes... (Heres a little side comment. Remember that the box that we started at also has another infinate boxes inside it and connected to it... I just singled it out to simplify the picture) My question runs something like this. All of this together would be only one "infinity" yet ther are an infinate number of infinities... (Ouch) I understand this, but Im about to get back to my real question... How can there be an infinate number of boxes encompassed in an area that takes up zero volume (or space) If matter gets infinately smaller, this would have to be the case. I think that is my principle flaw... Matter can't get infinately smaller...(But it would be cool if it did because it would mean that there has to be a god...) Here's some other interesting food for thought... If matter gets infinately smaller, are our minds infinate? Is that what makes us alive? Is that why we have souls? Are our souls just the parts of our minds that take up zero space? How can there be such an organized pattern to life if the theory of entropy is true? Is the earth just some atom in a great big hamburger that someone is about to take a big bite of in some other world? ORRRRR??? Is it all connectec somehow... Is the hamburger simultaneously on our earth, and in some other earth that is about a million orders of magnitude bigger than ours? Is that why I can read your mind when I'm tripping??? I hope I didn't scare anyone... I am really not about sitting down and thinking but sometimes I just can't help it... I thought of this one time when I was looking at the stars out in the middle of a big cornfield in Texas... I don't think I will ever figure it out... Help me out if you can...
Peace out,
-K-Luv-
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"Oh God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, Oh God do not be still. For, behold, Thine enemies make an uproar..." Psalm 83:1-2.
Peace out,
-K-Luv-
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"Oh God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, Oh God do not be still. For, behold, Thine enemies make an uproar..." Psalm 83:1-2.