Infinity

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Any number, you can always add one more.   But you never reach infinity.   Space is infinite, going ever smaller, as well as ever larger.   Time is infinite, in both directions, I think.   The past is infinite, and the future is infinite.   So spacetime, I gather, is (too, as well, also).  Once you're dead, you're dead forever.  I've seen a stereo for sale with the symbol for infinity on the volume dial.   I've also heard black holes described as having infinite gravity.   I've read A Brief History of Time, that claims there was no "before" the universe, because time is a part of spacetime, which began with the Big Bang.  Well, hopefully someone can make all this clear to/for me, but I stubbornly think I know the answer, already, honestly.

I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space.   That's true!  I've seen those computer screen-savers, that get ever smaller, and those describes reality, imho.  Subatomic particles get pretty small, but maybe you can fit a universe into one, honestly.  You can put quite a lot onto the head of a pin.   There are infinite infinities.   I've also thought, as regards the universe expanding, like a loaf of bread, that that reality can be equally described as everything shrinking, lol.   Just like each of us can be the center of the universe.   Or the sun can be understood as spinning around the earth.  If you keep an open mind, it's all true, even if some descriptions are easier to understand.   

Anyway, my main point is there are two kinds of infinity.   Bound infinity, and true infinity.  There's only one True Infinity.  You can go ever-smaller, but if you're outside something, you know there's a limit.   But the Universe, as I see it, goes on forever and ever (and ever!).   There isn't a wall on the outside of spacetime.  I don't think that entails infinite variations on the reality we experience, or multiple selves, or anything like that.  But that's fun to think about.  

The biggest number is a googolplex, I guess.   Infinity is big, bigger, the biggest.   You could have a googolplex googolplexes, and you still wouldn't scratch the surface.   Alright?  In that respect, infinity is kind of silly, because we can conceive of the concept, but have difficulty with the reality.   If God is everywhere, and is infinitely loving, that's quite a concept.   Allah has all in it.  Catholic means universal.  If it's all God, all love, all good, then we really have it good, when there's that concept of hell floating around, a place of eternal torment, that exists only virtually, in our imaginations, and is temporary, like everything else, as the Buddha might point out.  Impermanence is a feature of reality.  Even a diamond is not forever.  Stars burn out.  Books turn to dust.  The universe will eventually come to heat death, if I understand correctly.  Well, it's certainly interesting.   That's all I have to say.

Actually, no.  Computers may get so advanced, that virtual realities may become as real as our own.  Every book could be entered into, as it's own world.   "Reality" could be difficult to distinguish from the many virtual varieties.  Wow, huh?  Life is fun, already.   It just gets better, I hope.  Imagination does a lot of the work, already, so I'm in no hurry for alternate worlds.  But time traveling robots, visits to exoplanets, immersive video games, dreams, etc.  can get quite good / real.   Jesus, I guess, thought his dreams were a heavenly kingdom he and any followers could go to, if they lived virtuous lives that pleased his Heavenly Father.  Maybe there's some truth in that.  His face appears on toast, lol.   I'm content to read science fiction, and enjoy progress as it unfolds, in these amazing times, during my lifetime.

It's kind of fun to think that God makes One and Infinity the same thing!  (all in all is all we are)  :-)