What is it we are looking for? Well, that depends on who you are and what your beliefs are. If you are a physicist you may be looking for that illusive elemental particle, you know, the one that is the basic building block of matter. If you are a spiritual individual you may be looking for God. My question is, is there any difference in what we may find? I ask this because if you keep splitting the atom, at what point can you no longer split it? If you have read my previous blogs you may have already deduced that there is no end to splitting the atom and we could go on indefinitely. I remember a riddle that I heard when I was a small boy and it went something like this: If you are standing on one side of the room and you want to get to the other side but you are only able to go half the distance to the other side at a time, how long will it take you to get to the other side? Even as a child it didn't take me long to figure out that I would never get there. That is because half of something is infinite and we can take half of something for eternity. Does this not also apply to the atom and all the particles the atom is made of? Besides, how can you possibly find the smallest thing there is when there is no end to small? For if I can count from one on up forever, I too can count from minus one and smaller forever. As a matter of fact there is an infinite number of points between two numbers such as one and two. We keep finding ourselves in the vicinity of infinite and eternal, our two absolutes. And if we think about this, we can say they are one and the same. Infinite and eternal, two endless concepts that have no beginning and no end. Besides, since we cannot even describe the two outside of the abstract, how is it we can differentiate between the two? In order to differentiate they must have different aspects, or elements, and there are none.
Our thoughts actually belong in the same league. We can wonder through our imagination forever. We can project ourselves out beyond the cosmos and go on forever. We can conceptualize the subatomic until the end of time, if there was an end of time, which there isn't.
How is it being finite beings we are able to conceptualize the infinite and the eternal? How has it been possible to conceptualize something we cannot observe, but something we inherently know to be true? There is not a person on this earth now, in the past, or in the future that could claim there was at some time nothing and there will again at some time be nothing. Why is this? This is because we cannot conceive nothingness. It is beyond our conceptualizing ability to conceive nothingness! Try it.You cannot conceive nothingness as a sentient being. Nothingness has no description for to describe we must be able to compare at least two things and in nothingness there are no things.
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