We’re dealing with infinity, all the time.
Our universe is infinite. But not just that. Things around us, they’re infinite too.
Not because they are literally infinite. They are finite, actually. But for us — limited human beings — they are limitless.
I like Snickers, the chocolate bar. When I was young, I wanted to have my own factory that produces them, so I could eat them as much as I want. Not just one once in a while.
But technically, there is a limit on them. How many I can eat, physically. Maybe it’s a hundred, not even thousands, not to say millions. Hundred is much less than infinity.
If we consider what is healthy, I guess eating more than one or two bars isn’t healthy. Not to say eating them daily.
There are limits everywhere. These limits form infinity for us.
The world is infinite to us, because we would die before the world ends. Even if we actually were dying at the very same moment the world would. Nuclear war. An asteroid smashing the planet. A car crash. It’s all the same to our body. The world is infinite.
The number of people is infinite. If I’d spend a second with a unique person, I won’t meet every single person on the planet.
But a second is just an exaggeration. An absurd one, to demonstrate the unlimited number of unique people our planet can supply. Even if we have a small company of friends, we are unable to spend too much time with all of them.
Entertainment industry clearly demonstrates what this infinity means to most of us.
- The number of books is infinite. No lifetime can get all of them. And the number of books we have is just growing.
- Same goes for movies and TV shows.
- And music.
And, I guess, everything else on this planet.
- Sweets? Could you try all of them?
- All beers?
- Drive all cars?
- Play with every model of smartphones?
- Laptops?
- Smart watches?
The list goes on and on and on.
Explore all the countries and their cities? Learn their unique cultures and languages? No. Hence, we can claim that the number of countries is infinite.
Technically, one could visit each and every country. But as soon as one would do so, one of the visited countries could change. It could become a completely different country.
- Take Syria. Once a vibrant civilisation. Then, a hell on Earth with a creep controlling it. Then, the creep escaping to Moscow while the country being liberated.
- or the US. Once a vibrant democracy, now a country plagued with Trumpism. With incompetent amateurs in power.
Things are constantly at change.
- Living in a small city can demonstrate a lifetime of change.
- Not to say about the big city.
Changes are everywhere. Changes make things dynamic. Dynamic is infinite, if you are unable to process all the changes all the time. Nobody is able to.
More than that, we aren’t static either. We constantly change.
Understanding that, it helps understand infinity. Maybe infinity isn’t that difficult to understand. It’s just more than we can process.
And how much more exactly, it makes no diffidence. If there’s a weight you cannot hold, it makes no difference whether it’s a tonne or quintal. Or gigatonne. It’s all too heavy for an average human being. Therefore, it’s infinite.
We all live inside an infinite amount of everything, even if that everything is very limited. Because we ourselves are much more limited.