Is There Space For Me In Your Head?
We humans place great importance in creating boundaries that allow us to measure things. We just can’t seem to handle life without boundaries.
Time is an outstanding example. The concept of infinity removes the need to place constraints on time. If time is infinite, then measuring it only serves to carve out a small piece of endlessness so we can quantify it. I like to think man’s measurement of time is merely a feeble attempt to constrain something without beginning or end to give us a standard of past, present, and future to compare. From a purely logical standpoint, infinity means that any point in measured time is meaningless on the grand scheme of things.
This can constipate our mental facilities if we think about it for too long. But we measure time because we are finite beings living on an infinite timeline, so we need the ability to offer an answer when we think about an amount of time we’ve existed. It also gives us a good reason to have a party at least once a year, but I digress.
So, perhaps there is value in measuring time. But what about space?
Space also is meaningless in our infinite universe, but like time; I think there is a value to the concept of nothingness with us living on a finite planet. So, let’s explore space.
