Wednesday 30 June 2010

Infinity redefined

Sterrennacht boven de Rhône
Vincent van Gogh


Imagine you could look at the universe from far, far away, from a distance so huge that it would appear as tiny as a grain of sand beaming with light. Now imagine that there were many such tiny dots of light, some of them larger, some of them smaller, but from the distance, none of them appearing much bigger than our grain of sand. Wouldn't that look just like our sky on a starry night? But how much more vast and enormous this realm would be! Millions upon millions of universes scattered around the abyss of nothingness. Every single one as unending as ours. Infinity?