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Non-sensical infinity post

7th February 2010

Non-sensical infinity post

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Continuing with my penchant for nonsensical infinity-related posts, here is another one.

One of the comments on my previous post was that humanity will die out before it explores infinity. That probably implies that there is no such thing as absolute infinity - only a relative sense of something so large that for all practical purposes it is infinite.

So, would it be any different if humanity was not just a tiny speck in this universe ? Would it help if humanity had the life span to be able to explore the depths of this universe ? Would we have infinity then or would it cease to remain just a theoretical concept ?

The question I ask is nothing new. It has been asked in many forms ever since humanity started contemplating time and space beyond its own existence. But with every passing year, the boundaries of human existence are expanding. We are now no longer limited to our solar system.

Would it be meaningless to say that humanity will once be able to explore the outer reaches of space ? Or will humanity be too spread out to exist as a single species and eventually die out because of being spread out so thinly across the universe ?

Will we as human beings capture infinity before infinity spreads us too thin to exist ?

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  1. 1 On February 7th, 2010, Viswanath said:

    What you said is right about infinity. Whatever is beyond limits for us at this moment is infinity. I just wanted to quote a few sentences here from the book “A Short History of Nearly Everything”.

    “Lets imagine that we go on a journey on a rocketship to the edge of our solar system. At the speed of light, it would take 7 hours to get to Pluto. This is nowhere even near to the end of our solar system. We wont get there until we pass through Oort cloud, a vast celestial realm of drifting comets, and we wont reach reach the Oort cloud for another - I’m so sorry to say this - ten thousand years”

    I’m not saying that this situation we’re in might never change. I’m saying we’re bound by the practical limits imposed by nature that we cannot travel more than speed of light as per current Physics. And hence, we even struggle to travel to the end of our own solar system, leave alone our galaxy or universe. Well, someone might come and prove all these theories wrong. Should that happen, it will be nothing short of breathtaking and bold !!

    posted on February 7th, 2010 at 6:14 pm

  2. 2 On April 12th, 2010, Kylie BattName said:

    ?? ??! ?? ????????????? ??????!…

    ……

    posted on April 12th, 2010 at 12:52 pm

  3. 3 On May 4th, 2010, Kylie Batt said:

    ????? ????!!!!!!!?? ??…

    One of the comments on my previous post was that humanity will die out before it explores infinity…..

    posted on May 4th, 2010 at 10:57 am

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