Is it possible for the human brain to understand the concept of infinity?

Answer 1

I have added the question to the category religion & spirituality and mathematics and psychology. You have to sit together to to understand the concept of infinity. It is said that God is infinite as per all the religious books. His powers are infinite. Buddha did not discuss the idea of this infinite God. Because He knew that it is a wastage of time to go for discussion on this topic. For him the disciplined society was more important. The time is infinite. The space is infinite. You can not say that the time started from this particular hour and end at particular our. On the past side, it is never ending. On the future side it is never ending. The space is infinite. There is no wall at the end of your universe. You can not say that there is nothing beyond this wall and space ends here. There has to be space behind the wall also. To make it easier for you to understand the concept of infinity, I will take the example of number line. It is infinite on either side. That is what you are taught. You listen and you think that you got it. Now get ready for the never ending discussion. Can you tell me the last number on the number line? Try to write on your computer. The most intelligent mathematician will press the button of nine number. The child will use the number one button and then start pressing the number zero. Please remember that the child need to press that number zero button one time extra to exceed you by one. Remember that the child is stupid as compared to you. But it has got much more time to press the button zero than you have got. Then what is the last number? You go on typing the zeroes on number one. You put your finger on zero button and keep it pressed. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000.I just have pressed the button for a while. You can press the button from morning to evening every day through out your life. Your next generations will also do the same job for millions of years. Still you have not reached to the infinity. It is very easy to quip the comment, "Never ending". But it is not possible to 'understand' the same. Now to come to your brain. It is very difficult to process the abstract concepts for the human brain. The great scientist Newton could process the very elementary concepts by way of abstract thinking and become the greatest scientist, ever born. As a human you can put the tip of pencil on the paper and call it as point. Then the largest thing that you can visualize is extended as far as your visual field and as long as you can see. Same thing is applicable to the ability to listen to the sounds. You can hear the sounds in limited spectrum only. So you bring every thing in this limited spectrum and then perceive the same. The 'biggest' thing becomes 'infinite' for you. It is rightly said that do not argue with the stupid. He will bring down you to his level and then beat you with his experience. So you bring the concept of infinity to your level of perception and beat the same with your experience. The point is that it is not possible for human brain to understand the concept of infinity. You just ' think' that you can 'understand' this concept. But the fact is that it is not possible for the human brain to understand the same. I talked about the number line only. There are 'infinite' lines in the plane. There are 'infinite' planes in the space. The space is not created. It is 'infinite'. The time is 'infinite'. What is happening in 'infinite' time from 'infinite' space is not the only event that you call as 'big bang'. Your imagination starts with this big bang only and ends here only. You do not get the simple fact that there has to be unthinkable number of big bangs has to be happening in this infinite space. They has to be happening from infinite time. They will happen for infinite period. You can understand Hydrogen can combine with Oxygen to form water and vise verse. Because it happens in front of you. You can not understand that big bang is as a tiny event in infinite space. No event is one time event in the physics. Every thing happens as per the law of physics. Nature and physics has nothing to do with 'your' level of perception. You 'think' that you are intelligent. But you are stupid. It take some intelligence to know that you are a stupid. I mean that the human brain is stupid. The infinite God has been trying to make you understand Him, who is Himself infinite. He might have been telling you this fact from infinite time. There has to be life that existed in the previous big bangs, that have been happening from infinite time. Life has to be there is the other galaxies also. Religion has given you opportunity to become part of this infinity. You are fighting to obtain the peace of finite happiness for finite period. You do not get happiness by robbing it from others. You get happiness by giving the happiness to others. Every religion has been telling the same thing. So it is up to you to get the infinite happiness for infinite time or get the finite happiness for finite time.

Now comes the proof that one centimeter is equal to one meter. There is one to one co-relation between numbers and points on the number line. You take two number lines. In the first number line you take numbers placed at the distance of one centimeter apart. In a second number line you place the numbers one meter apart. Then take a point at the at the center between zero and one. It is 0.5 in both number lines. Then take the point at half the distance between the two. That is 0.25. Then take the half at this distance. That is 0.125. Like wise you go on taking points at half the distance between the two. You can go on halving the distance by diving the number by 2 each time. You have got the corresponding point on the number line. You can go on halving the number infinite times. So for every number there is one point in both the number lines. The line segment on the line on which you have taken points on the meter scale is hundred times longer than the one in which you have taken one centimeter apart. But the 'infinite' points can be accommodated in both the line segments. So it proves that both line segments are equal in length. That is one centimeter is equal to one meter. As both the line segments can accommodate infinite points. You take the number line in which the numbers are placed apart at the distance of one centimeter. You take the number line in which the points are placed at 46.5 billion light years apart. This is the approximate diameter of your universe. Then both the line segments has capacity to accommodate the infinite numbers. That proves that the the one centimeter and the diameter of the universe are both equal in length. The point is that do not try to play with the concept of infinity. It can be easily proved that you are stupid. One of the greatest scientist has used this trick to fool you for decades.

Answer 2

Understand: yes.Visualize: probably no.

Answer 3

Yes it is.