How can you possibly imagine infinity? Or nothingness?

Question

It makes my brain hurt.
What colour is nothing anyway?

Answer 1

I'm not sure that we can. I spend most of my life within a ten mile radius of where I live. A 300 mile trek to a client is quite an adventure. When I have flown at 30,000 ft I have had a glimpse of vaster distances. But this still does not prepare me to comprehend the distance to the moon. let alone galactic distances.

The fact that the speed of light is finite is some help. In my inormal daily life light travels instantaneously. But I can get my head round the fact that light takes a finite time to travel intergalactic distances and that some of the universe is unknowable until the light reaches me.

Anyhow, surely the universe is finite so the problem with infinity does not exist? (I'm talking about the physical universe here, not a mathematical construct.)

As for nothingness, well. In practical terms there is nothing between me and my computer screen. OK, I know there are air molecules there but they do not affect my perception of the gap.

Colour is an attribute of physical objects, or more correctly an attribute of our perception of physical objects and thus does not apply to nothingness. Nevertheless, I see it as a deep indigo. How about you?

Answer 2

You cannot possibly imagine infinity. Once, when I was a child, I tried to imagine that I've boarded a space rocket, and I flew non-stop for 50 years. Imagine, after flying for so long you've arrived to some sort of a "border". But what's after that "border"? Imagine, you demolish it, and you continue flying, but then again....you will NEVER arrive to an end. Even if you had the most powerful space shuttle which could fly with no fuel for 10 thousand years, and you would go straight ahead without turning left or right, you'd still arrive to nothing. It's one of those things which makes the human mind tremble, and.....fail in an instant. Realising that there is no limit in the Universe is the biggest proof of God's existence. Only God could have created something like that. Even, if you imagine that Universe is shaped in "8" (which means you eventually come back to the same point over and over again), the next question would be, 'But what's OUTSIDE of the edges off of "8". What happens if by some powerful force you divert of the "8" shape, and manage to escape it ?'. The truth of the matter is.....infinity cannot be grasped by human mind, and not even the most advanced science in the world is going to aid one in achievening the task of imagining the infinity.

Answer 3

Most people trying to imaging nothing leave the dimensions of space behind (Height, width, depth) and this mental picture persists for a time (another dimension) until they get bored. Well, sorry, but the dimensions of space-time are properties (as Dr. E point out), and nothing has *no* properties. Once you can will away space-time, then you can imagine nothing.

Unfortunately, whenever some succeeds in doing this, history changes in such a way that they were never born, so no one misses them. I think I've watched one to many Twilight Zones

Answer 4

Ok, here's what infinity looks like. Get two mirrors. Arrange them so they're facing each other. Look into one of the mirrors, so that you can also see the one it's facing. You should see endless reflections going on and on. That's infinity.

Ok, here's how to imagine nothingness. Where were you before you were born?

Answer 5

Nothing to me seems black. Nothingness is scary. I often bable in my own brain with such thoughts untill i cannot think anymore.
Personally, i dont think anyone can imagine infinity. Or predict past it or even close to it.
Black is my answer to nothingness
And to inmagine something that has never been seen, nor is an object, can only be left to wonder about.

Answer 6

you didn't exist before you were born, so you didn't exist in nothingness for an infinite amount of time. Infact, I often wonder why...if you can keep going back in time billions and zillions of years.....how did we ever reach the point where we were born?

Stuff like this drives people nuts.

Answer 7

Infinity isn't as big as you'd imagine. and i believe nothing has just recently changed from blue to red

Answer 8

"How can one be and not be on the comparable time?" One can not "be" and "not be" on the comparable time, and that's competely irrelevant on your question. Nothingness IS the state of being not something, the state of being lifeless is working example a state of nothingness. countless human beings have a annoying time grasping the belief of "nothingness" even if that is extremely some thing that has no initiating and no ending.

Answer 9

the reason we can't understand infinity is because every thing we know has a begging and an end.And the color a nothing is black

Answer 10

He initiated creation most initially and commenced it originally, without undergoing reflection, without making use of any experiment, without innovating any movement, and without experiencing any aspiration of mind. He allotted all things their times, put together their variations gave them their properties, and determined their features knowing them before creating them, realising fully their limits and confines and appreciating their propensities and intricacies.

When Almighty created the openings of atmosphere, expanse of firmament and strata of winds, He flowed into it water whose waves were stormy and whose surges leapt one over the other. He loaded it on dashing wind and breaking typhoons, ordered them to shed it back (as rain), gave the wind control over the vigour of the rain, and acquainted it with its limitations. The wind blew under it while water flowed furiously over it.

Then Almighty created forth wind and made its movement sterile, perpetuated its position, intensified its motion and spread it far and wide. Then He ordered the wind to raise up deep waters and to intensify the waves of the oceans. So the wind churned it like the churning of curd and pushed it fiercely into the firmament throwing its front position on the rear and the stationary on the flowing till its level was raised and the surface was full of foam. Then Almighty raised the foam on to the open wind and vast firmament and made therefrom the seven skies and made the lower one as a stationary surge and the upper one as protective ceiling and a high edifice without any pole to support it or nail to hold it together. Then He decorated them with stars and the light of meteors and hung in it the shining sun and effulgent moon under the revolving sky, moving ceiling and rotating firmament.