You know what things happen when you try to take infinite, unfathomable concepts and stuff them into understandable (to an extent) terms?
Weird things
Annoying things!
Like irrational numbers
and imaginary numbers
and dividing discrete quantity by infinity
It’s messed up
Why is the transition from continuous to discrete so screwy?
When we try to contain something infinite, it just doesn’t work
Irrational numbers will never cease to exist, because continuous quantity is infinitely divisible, whereas discrete quantity is not
Fitting the concept of number into a numeral system is like trying to explain every single thing about the universe in one book
You can make the book really big – like encyclopedia on steroids big – but you could never fit everything about the universe in there
That is, assuming you know everything about the universe (which you don’t…because the universe is incomprehensible…hence this analogy…ya)
At this point, I’ve pretty much shown that something bigger than another thing cannot fit into that thing…
Yay
Yet the incompatible relationship between the infinite and the finite is found in many other things
Humans are finite
Our lives are finite
Our minds’ capability to understand the infinite is, well, finite
We understand the infinite in terms of the finite
Hence, discrete quantity
Even more hence, irrational numbers
Lots of henciness!
All modern science puts everything in finite terms
Scientists nowadays seek to understand truth not for what it is, but for it’s practicality
Hence, the wonder and beauty of the infinite is lost
Yes, henciness
The human animus (or mind/soul) cannot comprehend the infinite
Therein lies its wonder and beauty
But the only way to approach an understanding and appreciation of the beauty beyond our comprehension is to place it in terms we can fathom
Which sucks, cause then it’s not beautiful anymore
Whatever it is about humans and the world we live in, we ruin everything
Putting the infinite and the beautiful in terms of the finite for the purpose of our understanding destroys their nature
…R.i.p. the infinite
Mortality is a lot to handle, I guess
The Wise Ry Guy 