Monday, July 9, 2012

The Universe


I think we can all agree that the universe is a big, somewhat scary place.
A never ending, dark and vacuum nothingness.
A place that is not able to sustain life, if not on a planet.

To me, it's quite clear that 'space' goes on for eternity.
A thing that sounds weird to many others, or even impossible.
But let me explain.

[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0]

If the numbers between these brackets, is 'space' or 'the universe' as we know it, then what is on the position of the dot?

[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0]  .

Nothing, you might say. Okay, fair enough; but isn't that still space? Cause 'space' is pretty much nothing as well.
"Fine, maybe our 'space' is a bit bigger than we thought."
Okay, great answer. But then answer me this:

If space is a bit bigger then we thought it would be and it reaches out, all the way to that "dot", than what is on the second dot?

[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0   .]     .

"Nothing", could again, be your answer. But we just concluded that "nothing" is just as much "something" as what we call 'space'.
This, of course, could go on and on and on...

[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0].].].].].].].].].].].].].].].??

See where I'm going with this?
Sure we could call it something else, so it wouldn't be 'space' anymore.
But we all know it's still fucking space...

I even once, heard someone say, that if we reach the borders of 'space', one will simply "transport" to the far end, in the opposite direction.
Let me explain.

[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0], so, as soon as someone goes beyond 0, he'll come back at 1.
But even if that's the case, my same statement holds.

[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0] . «« What is on the dot?

Sure, in this case we'd never be able to reach it, since we'll get back at 1, as soon as we try to go beyond 0, but the dot is still there, whether -we- can reach it, or not.

So space, goes on for eternity.
At least, it does in my logic.

Then there's extraterrestrial life.
Aliens, if you will.

To me, finding aliens on some far, far away planet, does not sound strange at all.
There's millions and millions, billions, gazillions of planets in space. (A lot)
So to me, it's weird to think of planet earth, as the ONLY planet that has the PERFECT position in the universe, to sustain life.
Of course there's no proof of that, or not that I know off.
But it wouldn't surprise me to see life on some other planet.
I wish that on some random day, we find aliens. No matter how big or small they are.
That would be so awesome.

1 comment:

  1. Some others might suggest that our three dimensional space is the surface of some higher dimensional object (and that would explain going back to 1 nicely). However that multi-dimensional space that contains the object that is our universe is still "space". And if it has boundaries the dot can still lie beyond those boundaries. There is always something "behind the curtain" and you can keep calling that vacuum space, no matter what form it takes.

    In that sense space is infinite. But at that point it simply becomes a question of definition.

    What if we live in a matrix like environment? The dot could not be in the space you put it because the computer program can't store the variables of the location that the dot was placed in.

    However you could call the "space" around the device that contains our matrix like environment "space". In which case it is infinite. You could also call the space outside of the matrix "real space" and the space inside of the matrix "matrix space", in which case matrix space is not infinite and real space might be infinite depending on what lies beyond it and how we call it.

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