Pondering Infinity
For at least the last month, whenever I've gotten high I've caught glimpses of infinity. And every time, it feels like it's going to break my brain. I'm starting to think it's just stretching it, allowing it to open up to greater possibilities and a greater scope of awareness. So what does infinity feel like? Here are a few glimpses: Infinity can be glimpsed by realizing: Just how vast and infinite our universe is in terms of space and time: There are billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone and billions of galaxies that we are currently able to see The Big Bang is estimated to have occurred about 13.8 billion years ago. The earth formed 4.6 billion years ago. Dinosaurs lived 246-66 million years ago. The Old Kingdom of Egypt (2700-2200 BCE) is about as distant from the New Kingdom (1570-1069 BCE) as the year 1 CE from the present day. When King Tutankhamun looked back at the Old Kingdom it was 2,400 years before his birth (ci...