{"id":10628,"date":"2022-06-01T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=10628"},"modified":"2022-11-04T08:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T08:00:46","slug":"the-unimportance-of-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/ultimates\/the-unimportance-of-infinity","title":{"rendered":"The Unimportance of Infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>This doesn\u2019t mean that the issue is unimportant \u2015 quite the contrary. But infinity itself, as a concept, is about unimportance. Then, what has love got to do with it?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>[This is an &#8216;Ultimates&#8217; text. Please, don&#8217;t take it at face value.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Infinity is an absurdity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It cannot exist. Yet, any finite space or time can only exist within infinity. There cannot be a single point where it stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as a good start, the space and time \u2013 or space-time \u2013 we live in are also absurdities. In principle, they cannot exist. Yet, they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something has to yield, and since it\u2019s not abruptly at the end of the line, it must be over all the line. This is: finitude fades into infinity. This must happen from the start on, related to the observer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Importance is a good candidate.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going from the finite ever further leads to a fading out of importance for the observer. Thus, from each observer\u2019s standpoint, indeed, infinity doesn\u2019t exist. It fades out into unimportance \u2015 as a profound thought. It is unimportant since the observer cannot reach that far starting from where he presently is, not even as a light beam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infinity doesn\u2019t exist. It is \u2015 as far as the observer is concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But looking at this observer (right here; you, for instance) from another observer very far away, the same thing happens. From the same distance, this observer also fades out into unimportance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You fade out from all sides since you are at infinity from all these sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you still there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, hopping from observer to observer, things are different. In that sense, there cannot be finitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The total universe truly is infinite.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has consequences. It means there was no big bang, nor a future ending, nor an outside the total universe in space \u2015 only infinity, infinitely long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The borders \u2013 if any \u2013 to observers are borders of unimportance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love overcomes these borders. Love doesn\u2019t ask whether something is important to oneself. It transcends the unimportance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, is love what brings us to infinity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a nice thought.<\/p>\n<div data-object_id=\"10628\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkwrap cbxwpbkmarkwrap_no_cat cbxwpbkmarkwrap-post \"><a  data-redirect-url=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\"  data-display-label=\"0\" data-show-count=\"0\" data-bookmark-label=\" \"  data-bookmarked-label=\" \"  data-loggedin=\"0\" data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"10628\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig  cbxwpbkmarktrig-button-addto\" title=\"Bookmark This\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig-label\"  style=\"display:none;\" > <\/span><\/a> <div  data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"10628\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap\" id=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap-10628\"><div class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguest-message\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguesttrig_close\"><\/a><h3 class=\"cbxwpbookmark-title cbxwpbookmark-title-login\">Please login to bookmark<\/h3>\n\t\t<form name=\"loginform\" id=\"loginform\" action=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-login.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-username\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_login\">Username or Email Address<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-password\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-remember\"><label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-submit\">\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button button-primary\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/form><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn\u2019t mean that the issue is unimportant \u2015 quite the contrary. 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