Exploring Infinity

As a kid when I thought of infinity, it only made sense in terms of whole, real numbers. 1 could double to 2. 2 could double to 4. 4 could double to 8, etc. You could carry on doubling numbers until you eventually died having achieved nothing in your life other than the ability to count incredibly high. Starting at zero and growing, i imagined a line with a notch for every integer, that would carry on forever with each of those numbers being made up at least in part by the numbers along the way. However one day, I realized that in between each of those notches, were another infinite amount of values. Infinitesimals, numbers so small and near in value there would be no way to measure their difference. That was the day my mind exploded.

Now, space is a concept NO ONE will ever truly grasp. Moving from an atomic level upwards, everything is made up of everything in it. We, and everything around us, are just trillions of atoms and cells moving in perfect harmony. These billions of cell bunch clumps make up the world and that world and others like it, make up a galaxy, and other galaxies along with that make up the universe. What’s beyond that? There must be something. Just because we don’t know now, doesn’t mean we won’t eventually. Just because we can only see so far down the line, doesn’t mean theres nothing.
If you look out at the ocean, all you see is ocean up to that horizon line. Starting at the shore it just gets larger and larger until you can’t see it anymore. Is it so crazy to think that on another level, we are the atoms of something much larger than ourselves? Maybe neither we, or the being on the other end of that spectrum are just able to see far enough down the line. We are infinitesimal in comparison to them. However, inside each of our atoms could reside entire universes, made up of entire universes that we are presently unaware of due to our technological restrictions. In comparison we are infinitely large in comparison to them.

We are infinite.