The Theory of Infinite Divisibility

The Galaxy

Okay, the picture above is our home—the Milky Way Galaxy. It is really big. But let's go in the other direction for a moment.

What happens when you get a piece of bread and keep cutting it in half hundreds of times? Eventually, you get to the atoms, the electrons, the quarks, and so on. The fact is, matter has no end because everything has to be made of something. Thus, matter is infinite.

Going in the other direction, the Universe appears to have no end, and even if it did, the walls would have to be made of something, and what would be on the other side of those walls?

See my point? We humans live in just one segment of an infinite continuum. Matter is infinitely small and the Universe is infinitely large.

Now, I believe in the Big Bang theory, but who created that little subatomic particle that exploded 20 billion years ago to create our Universe? Only a supernatural being could have created something from nothing, thus I believe in God. But I also believe that everything in the Universe is chained to the laws of physics. If we can't explain something, that doesn't necessarily mean it's supernatural, only that we haven't figured out the physical law yet.

We humans, who share much of our DNA with a common earthworm, have huge brains, and so we are trying to unravel the mysteries of the Universe.

Religion

It's easy to attribute supernatural stories to all the mysteries of the Universe. After all, humans have done that for thousands of years. But it appears that our religions have "evolved." Ancient Egypt was the great intellectual incubator of religion. Because the great Nile River automatically rose each year to water their crops, the life of the early Egyptian was comparatively easy and he or she had more time to ponder the mysteries of our existence. The creative Egyptians came up with ideas like an afterlife, one God, and things like that. Over the years, the neighboring Hebrews borrowed many of these ideas, and the Jewish splinter group known as Christians developed these ideas even further.

So, what are you saying?

I know, I have to keep everything in my blog related to the topic. So, how do I tie this in? I guess by saying that just like the domain we exist in is infinite in size and time, so must our thinking be. We have to start learning to think infinitely, without preconceived restrictions.

The Theory of Evolution

So, just like life has "evolved" on our Planet, so has our religion, government, and institutions. When things get to the point where they can comfortably survive, they just stop evolving, no matter how ridiculous or irrational they are. Look at some of the freaky creatures in the animal kingdom. They got to where they could survive, so they just stopped evolving. The same holds true for our government, which is based on ancient principles (not all bad), and the same is true for our religions, which grew intellectually and philosophically to the point where they took on a life of their own, yet they also froze in time. So, several billion people on this Planet are confined by ancient religions that are like self-perpetuating organisms that use fear of the unknown, guilt, habit, and various built-in tools to stay alive. Those who challenge these religious organisms are marginalized, ignored, and sometimes murdered. It is like an immune system that destroys harmful bacteria.

The Mission

The mission for all of us humans is to challenge the old systems that have stopped evolving, hold us back, and even threaten to destroy us. This takes courage but it is necessary because a new model is needed to survive on our overpopulated, polluted, and compromised Planet. If we do not destroy the ancient beliefs that control and intimidate us, then those beliefs will ultimately destroy us.

As I've said before, I call this new thinking the Sustainability Movement. It's all about reinventing our culture, breaking out of our restrictive shells, and looking at our lives in a whole new way. The Old Way no longer works and really, as I've said many times before, we are floating down a river in a barrel, and the waterfall is very, very near.

From author David Pratt, excerpted from a 1996 edition of Sunrise magazine:

Physical particles can therefore be thought of as concentrations of an underlying, continuous ether. But the ether is only relatively continuous. Further analysis would show that it, too, is discontinuous, and these particle-like discontinuities would be concentrations of a deeper, subtler ether, which in turn is relatively continuous, but actually consists of even finer particles, which are in turn concentrations of an even subtler ether, and so on, ad infinitum. Thus as we move from our own distance scale beyond the Planck scale towards the infinitesimal, there is no reason to suppose that an absolutely bottom level of matter, consisting of absolutely homogeneous particles, will ever be reached. Between the two abstract limits of the infinite and the infinitesimal, there is a limitless number of concrete, finite systems -- atoms, planets, stars, galaxies, etc. -- each existing on a hierarchy of planes, from spiritual to material, and all their constituent grades of substance are composite, divisible, and inhomogeneous...