Sunday, October 20, 2013

Infinity and the Big Picture

infinity and the big picture:

infinity is a mathematical concept but personally would you want it? or would you prefer to repeat a limited number of things? what if it meant everything bad could happen as well as the nice things? put like that, most would opt for a finite number of nice things to do, would they not?

now theoretically the number of shades of colours could be infinite. however they would still fall under the basic classifications, red, blue, yellow, green and so on. so how are we to regard infinity? that detail or the shade in this case is infinite but the big picture of basic classifications is limited?

we could reduce the spectrum of human life to very few activities. in broad strokes, we sleep, we eat, we move, we walk, we sit and we think and so on. is it not the degree in the detail that gives the illusion perhaps that there are potentially an infinite number of things to do?

let us consider the graphics of the old Commodore 64 computer, 320 x 200 pixels, with 16 colours. what could we see in one minute? here it is clear that the number is a lot but is still limited. does this example reflect on the whole of reality too? that there may be so many things that could happen because of the intricate detail possible that the number seems infinite but is not?

think about the start of time this way, at time zero, we had zero. as time progressed we built and discovered and made things and learned so we gained. perhaps when we have more than enough we simply stop and history comes to an end?

what if the big picture could be expressed as a picture of a group of stick men and women with a few houses behind them and a few thought and speech bubbles? are we really any more than that as human beings?

emotionally speaking, we are creatures driven by want. what happens when we finally get all that we wanted?

CLEARCHARGE

Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Question of Time Infinity

the question of time infinity:

time is of change in the matter that makes up this reality. if we assume change is eternal, then yes, we could expect linear time to be infinite, that another second will follow on from this second, another year from this year, and so on.

but of change in matter, in the total of different states matter could have, what if this number for each least bit of matter is finite? also, assuming that matter could change back to a former state, that repetition occurs, that in a sense time could go backwards, so to speak.

the other assumption, of course, is that matter changes, never to fall back to what it once was, that each state is different to all those of the past, that change is a long road to infinity. now this does not seem likely given how stable this reality is. red is still red, blue is still blue. if this assumption were true would we not always see new colours that we had never seen before?

if we accept that time could go backwards, that repetition occurs in states, we arrive at the theoretical possibility that repetition for the whole of reality could occur, that eventually, we will be locked into a grand infinite cycle of change, where we repeat everything, forever. this is like the theory of eternal return or recurrence, but here we could assume that the start of time does not repeat, but everything after a certain point. this is unless some least bits of matter could have an infinite number of states.

let us imagine a very little reality composed of 4 least bits of matter joined together. change is such that matter does revert to past states and let's say there are only 4 finite possible states for each of these 4 least bits of matter. therefore there are only 4 quadrupled equals 256 maximum possible combinations of states at any one time, and here we can easily imagine repetition for the whole of this reality to happen.

now let me say i do not understand the metaphysics of change and how neighbouring matter affect each other. and perhaps the period of time each state lasts has an infinite range and so perfect repetition, so to speak, is not the case.

CLEARCHARGE