The Three Spatial Infinities
Space is a mysterious thing. It is one of the core aspects of our physical existence, yet we don't have a completely clear understanding of it. In relativity physics, Einstein equated space and time to be of the same construct. Space is part of time and time is part of space.
We know that space/time changes and is distorted in a way by objects with mass that exist in it. The more massive the object, the more distorted space/time gets.
This shows that spacetime itself has a "realness" to it even if it's completely void of matter and energy. Almost as if it has quanta, or building block parts.
In my meditations, I like to play with the complexity of things. I like to play with the complexity of space and time. For the sake of a thought experiment, I suspended what I knew about space so I could experiment with how complex and dynamic space could get in my imagination.
I imagined space as having three distinct types of infinities. They are expanse infinity, scale infinity, and dimensional infinity.
Expanse infinity is the infinity of space where you could move an object in any possible direction forever, never running into any boundaries or reaching the end of space. It is the easiest of these spatial infinities to grasp and imagine.
Scale infinity is the infinity of space where you you can go down in smallness forever and up in bigness forever. You could zoom in on a point in space and go infinitely down forever in smallness, or you could zoom out to where the size of the known universe or the size of a trillion known universes become the size of a pinpoint. Infinite scale is hard to imagine for sure, but look up a mandelbrot fractal and that can give your mind a better idea.
The last spatial infinity is by far the hardest to imagine, and it is dimensional infinity. To explain this one, we know that space has three directly observable dimensions. With time factored in, it has 4 dimensions. X axis, Y axis, Z axis. Now imagine that you can have 100 spatial dimensions. 100 "axises." How about 10,000 axises? 10,000 dimensions? What if you had a space with infinite spatial dimensions? Infinite axises?
An unfathomable complexity for sure, but what if we created a matrix where all three spatial infinities existed simultaneously? What this would do would truly allow for the existence and implementation of an infinite amount of forms, structures, and systems. It would also allow for the existence of infinite physical complexity and infinitely complex systems.
Now of course this only exists conceptually as a thought experiment, but it is a good mindstretcher for sure, and stretching your mind is good for your ability to generate new ideas and new creativity. It's good to increase your mental platform.
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