The Answer to all the Questions we don't know the Answer to

Infinity, an essay by Hector Parr

I don't think Infinity is paradoxical. Rather, I think that Infinity represents the limit of our understanding. What we don't know, we relate to infinity. The size of universe, the number of decimal points in 10/3, the number of points in a line. The most fundamental entities of our world, such as time and space, have infinity associated with them; a pointer as to our degree of understanding.

There is another strong argument that to talk of a universe containing an infinite number of particles is without meaning. It has often been pointed out that, in such a universe, anything which can exist without trangressing the rules of nature, must of necessity exist somewhere, and anything which can possibly happen, will happen, So there must somewhere be another planet which its inhabitants call "Earth", with a country called "England" whose capital is "London", containing a cathedral called "St. Paul's". Indeed there must be an infinite number of such planets, identical in every respect except that the heights of these copies of St. Paul's differ among themselves. Is this not sufficiently ridiculous to convince believers in an infinite universe that they are wrong? Is not this a further indication that to talk of an infinity of material objects must be meaningless?

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Infinity is the perfectly logical answer to all the questions whose answers we don't know. Its answers may be ridiculous, but they are indeed logical. Yet, if we think about it, Infinity itself is the most illogical concept ever postulated. And that may be due to various reasons, but I think it's because we do not have a logical answer to the most fundamental of our questions.