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ONE MISCONCEPTION...
of the universe that many people fall into is the idea of infinite spacetime, thus infinite possibilities. If the universe truly is as boundless as many believe, everything imaginable must already have existed, still exists, and will continue to exist somewhere out there in the inky expanse. Pink marshmallow elephants ruling in allegiance with the Mammalian Republic of Cairus would have enslaved an orb exactly like Earth fifteen minutes ago, at the present minute, and three weeks from now just because infinite spacetime supposedly demands that all options be explored. Life must exist on other planets.
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HOWEVER...
one must consider the alternate aspect of infinity, the much smaller side. Just as Quantum Theory and Relativity conflict on their opposite sides of the universal spectrum, so do the two sides of infinity. Suppose that the outcome to any given situation was represented by a different number. For example, if the number 5 represented the Big Bang of roughly fifteen billion years ago and the number 6 represented the theorized future Big Crunch, 5.5 might represent the point at which everything switched around, effects preceding their causes. Number 5.2329452193654932765000001 could stand for Einstein thinking about light for the first time whereas Number 5.232945219365493276500000101 would alter the situation a bit and have him ponder the female form instead. That number with a few more digits added on could even be Einstein going mad from relentless Marlene Dietrich fantasies, landing him in a psychiatric ward for the rest of his life. An infinite number of decimal values can be added on to any number within the allowed domain (in this case, the space between 5 and 6), thus any quantity of resulting possibilities can occur. Numbers/possibilities such as 1.5169/the existence of life on other planets or 12.04/the movement of the immovable object are outside of the 5-6 realm and thus can never occur. This is a more likely representation of our present universe than the X-Files and Greek Mythology versions in which anything at all is possible, however entertaining those universes may be. |
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