Imagine if you will a helium canister and eerily similar empty ‘prototype’ balloons. You have a timer running and fill each balloon but each time you reach 30 seconds the balloon pops, so after 5 balloons you decide to stop at 29 seconds. The first balloon doesn’t pop, the 2nd, and the 3rd, etc.
As long as I can remember I’ll never forget I was taught that the universe is expanding. But what this has always meant to me was: Let’s say I was able to take a soda can from yesterday (the past) into my current time. The can of soda would (arbitrarily) could be 1/2 the size, per se, as a can of soda today. Because remember, the farther away an object gets from you it’s size becomes smaller, right? Like when you look at something farther away from you, it’s not the actual size, it’s smaller, and the farther away it gets the scale of that object shrinks. So to me the expanding universe theory was always easy to understand, it’s expanding but it’s just a scale issue. We’re all always scaling up in size. You may ask that doesn’t really mean the universe is getting bigger, oh but this does, because the spaces in between things are spreading out in comparison to what they once were, for instance the space between 1.4 & 1.5 is getting bigger (but more on that later).
But here is the real rub. Let’s say you have a number like 2.1354 versus 213.54, what’s the difference? Not much really, except just where the decimal is. I mean I have never agreed with “insignificant” digits. Because honestly, when using numbers we truly do not know where the decimal actually is when using any of our numbers. So what if in the TRUEST sense the size of the universe equally measured (generally speaking) is 1 meter x 1 meter x 1 meter, universally speaking. Meaning that a meter on other planets and in use by other sentient beings was agreed upon and equal to the unit size of the universe. That would mean instead of me being 2 meters tall, I would be, in the TRUEST sense, something on the size and scale of 2.0 meters x10 to -∞ (or inversly related to size of the universe).
But how could this be? That I am 0.000…0002 meters in comparison to the size of the universe? That would mean I am truly insignificant, right? But see that’s the point. If the universe and numbers in general were TRULY INFINITE, that would mean we were all infinitesimally small, and so close to zero we wouldn’t even exists!!! Because we would be integrated away by calculus…in the opposite direction instead of as N approaches infinty, as N approaches zero, poof we’re gone!
So back to the balloon, the universe has constant size, a constant changing size, but if you want a unit of 1, the LIMIT of our existance and that limit is the limit of Infinity. But I don’t see how people can just keep saying, “The definition of Infinity is that, in layman’s terms, numbers go on and on forever and there’s always a number after the next largest number and so on and so forth…”
One last note that is relative, that I alluded to earlier, I also believe that the space between numbers like say what is after 1.4 is not infinitesimally small. Like saying you can go from 1.4000…0001 with zeros as long as you want…the old paradox, just doesn’t ring true, there’s a limit there also.
In summary, Infinity is a constant, probably equal to 1, and we are all, in size, somwhere between 0 to 1 multiplied by some really small scalar in comparision to the size of the universe, tucking us in bed at night.
Thanks for reading, I hope this can spark your brain!
