Infinity and the human experience

The other night I was looking at some images taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. In particular, I was looking at what is called the Ultra Deep Field which was taken about a year ago. In the image, scientists have identified over 11,000 galaxies. The light coming from these galaxies is 13 billion years old. They put this image about 1 billion years after the big bang.

I’ve also been studying hyperspheres and space-time for a project I have been working on. These are models of the design of our universe. It is not 3 dimensional like we experience it, there are more dimensions. One of which is time.

To get the Ultra Deep Field with the Hubble, they point it at a dark part of the sky. No matter where they point the Hubble to get these deep views, they see a uniform image.

As you look far away, you are looking back in time. The farther you can see, the further back in time you can see. No matter what way you look, you are looking into the past. Since the universe started as a single point, all directions point to the same place.

We don’t experience the universe this way, except in math and theory. It is impossible for us to see the world in 4 or more dimensions. If we could, think of the possibilities. We would experience time as part of space not as a separate entity.

I started thinking about infinity. Think of a line that extends infinitely, go ahead. Now realize that in the process of you thinking about infinity, you make it finite because you had to compare it to something relative which is finite. You can’t really visualize infinity thinking of it that way. We live in what seems a finite world. Now if you were to empty your mind, and accept infinity as something that never has closure, you would be able to experience infinity. Infinity is the blank state of mind. As soon as you try to think about it, you just made it finite.

The problem we run into in thinking this way is that we have doubt. It is our doubt that will not let us accept something that isn’t finite. It is part of the human condition.

In order to experience the world and universe in a higher level than what we do, we must be able to experience infinity as infinite. Open your minds and break free from your doubts.