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3 years ago
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Hey Everyone, hope your evening/day/night (whatever time it is for you, wherever you are and whenever you happen to be reading this) is going well.
As the title suggests, I might be getting busy! Who could've guessed?
As some of you know, I am working on immigrating to Canada. It's a process that has been in the works for about a year and a half now. I'm nearing the end of this process. Assuming I get approved (keeping my fingers crossed) there is going to be a lot that I'm suddenly going to have to do, very quickly. Either sell or prepare my home to be rented out, both of which are an entire process in and of themselves. Simultaneously, I have to buy a new home in Canada and be in touch with two different real estate agents in two countries with different laws and regulations. Somehow, those both have to be coordinated to happen in roughly the same time frame. Then there's the moving process itself, starting a new job, various things I have to do/forms to fill that are related to immigration, people I have to meet and speak to, it's going to be a lot.
I have no idea when I'm going to get a yay or nay either. A day will happen and all of a sudden I will have to do everything. It will be sudden and it will probably be overwhelming. Basically, if we're roleplaying with each other or getting art or planning art or whatever the case may be - I may just be a little difficult to get a hold of, for a little while. I apologize in advance, if there's any inconvenience (especially if someone is waiting on me to approve art or something) but I'll do the best I can to mention if I'll be away, for a little while.
I'm excited though. 2020 was supposed to be a really big year for me. I got a project management degree at the end of 2019 and was ready to get a new PM job in 2020. Was going to start on a job that I actually want, start dating, start volunteering more, start expanding a friend group in WA (where I had still only recently relocated to), and Covid just... plopped all over everything. The only goal I did achieve that year was getting a cat. By the time things started returning to normal again, Canada was becoming less of a thought and more of a reality that I wanted to actually work towards. So I still kept those things I wanted to do in 2020 at bay. It doesn't make sense to start on a lot of this, if I'm just going to be leaving the area in a little bit. But if I knew the process was going to take as long as it did, I would have at least started on the new job. Oh well. Because of this rut that I've been in, for so long, when I get that approval I'm just going for it. Nothing's holding me back from jumping right in. Even if they do deny me, I've got goals that I want to work on. So I might just naturally be a little more busy, until I settle into my new reality, whatever that happens to be.
I feel like that last paragraph was kind of a downer, so here's something fun that's been occupying my mind, lately.
Infinity is weird. It just is. It's weird mathematically, it's weird cosmologically, it's weird theoretically, it's just weird. There's a very famous example illustrating this that starts with the fact that there is an infinite amount of numbers. If you take that infinite set of numbers and pull out only the even numbers, despite the fact that there are only half as many even numbers as there are whole numbers, there is still an infinite amount of even numbers, so the group you're working with doesn't actually get any smaller... it's still infinite.
What I've been thinking about is space. Space is either infinite or it's finite. Both of those are weird, but for entirely different reasons. By space, I mean whatever the largest metric for measuring space is: the universe, the multiverse, something larger than the multiverse, something larger than that, whatever the biggest macro scale of space is, that's what I'm referring to as all of space. It's either infinite or not. But, because there are only so many ways that matter can be arranged (maybe this isn't strictly true, but it seems like it would be) if space is infinite, then every single arrangement of matter repeats infinitely, across space. There are infinite instances of myself, sitting in a chair and typing this journal out, just as there are infinite instances of you sitting wherever you're sitting, reading this, at this exact moment in time. But here's what's weird... because space is infinite, when you look at these matter arrangements and say "Oh yeah, this is repeating exactly as it is, infinitely." you can keep scaling that up to larger versions. There are infinite versions of Earth, exactly as it exists and infinite versions of our entire solar system, with all celestial bodies equally distanced from one another. Every instance of the solar system is some greater distance apart from one another... every identically occuring galaxy is some distance apart from one another. But when you scale up, those distances become part of the model in which you're using to judge these infinitely occuring matter clusters; and thus, you now have a new arrangement with which to call infinitely repeating. Eventually, you have either entire universes or entire expanding regions of space from inconceivably distance big bang points across whatever you want to call the absence of space. An infinite number of these (but not all of them) will be identical to our own, in its entirety, but so too will there be infinite occurrences of these in the distances apart from one another, that makes up a more macro arrangement. Once again, these macro arrangements just keep infinitely scaling up to even larger macro arrangements.
Infinity is... weird. That all assumes, of course, that space is infinite. Maybe it's not. But that also means there's an infinite anti-space field that... surrounds space, maybe? But is that infinite? Can it be infinite if it doesn't exist to hold matter within it? What does any of that even really mean?
This journal got way off course. Haha. I'm kinda hoping the last major paragraph sparks an interesting conversation, though. Or it at least gets people thinking. I like making people think...
Enjoy your evening, Everybody.
As the title suggests, I might be getting busy! Who could've guessed?
As some of you know, I am working on immigrating to Canada. It's a process that has been in the works for about a year and a half now. I'm nearing the end of this process. Assuming I get approved (keeping my fingers crossed) there is going to be a lot that I'm suddenly going to have to do, very quickly. Either sell or prepare my home to be rented out, both of which are an entire process in and of themselves. Simultaneously, I have to buy a new home in Canada and be in touch with two different real estate agents in two countries with different laws and regulations. Somehow, those both have to be coordinated to happen in roughly the same time frame. Then there's the moving process itself, starting a new job, various things I have to do/forms to fill that are related to immigration, people I have to meet and speak to, it's going to be a lot.
I have no idea when I'm going to get a yay or nay either. A day will happen and all of a sudden I will have to do everything. It will be sudden and it will probably be overwhelming. Basically, if we're roleplaying with each other or getting art or planning art or whatever the case may be - I may just be a little difficult to get a hold of, for a little while. I apologize in advance, if there's any inconvenience (especially if someone is waiting on me to approve art or something) but I'll do the best I can to mention if I'll be away, for a little while.
I'm excited though. 2020 was supposed to be a really big year for me. I got a project management degree at the end of 2019 and was ready to get a new PM job in 2020. Was going to start on a job that I actually want, start dating, start volunteering more, start expanding a friend group in WA (where I had still only recently relocated to), and Covid just... plopped all over everything. The only goal I did achieve that year was getting a cat. By the time things started returning to normal again, Canada was becoming less of a thought and more of a reality that I wanted to actually work towards. So I still kept those things I wanted to do in 2020 at bay. It doesn't make sense to start on a lot of this, if I'm just going to be leaving the area in a little bit. But if I knew the process was going to take as long as it did, I would have at least started on the new job. Oh well. Because of this rut that I've been in, for so long, when I get that approval I'm just going for it. Nothing's holding me back from jumping right in. Even if they do deny me, I've got goals that I want to work on. So I might just naturally be a little more busy, until I settle into my new reality, whatever that happens to be.
I feel like that last paragraph was kind of a downer, so here's something fun that's been occupying my mind, lately.
Infinity is weird. It just is. It's weird mathematically, it's weird cosmologically, it's weird theoretically, it's just weird. There's a very famous example illustrating this that starts with the fact that there is an infinite amount of numbers. If you take that infinite set of numbers and pull out only the even numbers, despite the fact that there are only half as many even numbers as there are whole numbers, there is still an infinite amount of even numbers, so the group you're working with doesn't actually get any smaller... it's still infinite.
What I've been thinking about is space. Space is either infinite or it's finite. Both of those are weird, but for entirely different reasons. By space, I mean whatever the largest metric for measuring space is: the universe, the multiverse, something larger than the multiverse, something larger than that, whatever the biggest macro scale of space is, that's what I'm referring to as all of space. It's either infinite or not. But, because there are only so many ways that matter can be arranged (maybe this isn't strictly true, but it seems like it would be) if space is infinite, then every single arrangement of matter repeats infinitely, across space. There are infinite instances of myself, sitting in a chair and typing this journal out, just as there are infinite instances of you sitting wherever you're sitting, reading this, at this exact moment in time. But here's what's weird... because space is infinite, when you look at these matter arrangements and say "Oh yeah, this is repeating exactly as it is, infinitely." you can keep scaling that up to larger versions. There are infinite versions of Earth, exactly as it exists and infinite versions of our entire solar system, with all celestial bodies equally distanced from one another. Every instance of the solar system is some greater distance apart from one another... every identically occuring galaxy is some distance apart from one another. But when you scale up, those distances become part of the model in which you're using to judge these infinitely occuring matter clusters; and thus, you now have a new arrangement with which to call infinitely repeating. Eventually, you have either entire universes or entire expanding regions of space from inconceivably distance big bang points across whatever you want to call the absence of space. An infinite number of these (but not all of them) will be identical to our own, in its entirety, but so too will there be infinite occurrences of these in the distances apart from one another, that makes up a more macro arrangement. Once again, these macro arrangements just keep infinitely scaling up to even larger macro arrangements.
Infinity is... weird. That all assumes, of course, that space is infinite. Maybe it's not. But that also means there's an infinite anti-space field that... surrounds space, maybe? But is that infinite? Can it be infinite if it doesn't exist to hold matter within it? What does any of that even really mean?
This journal got way off course. Haha. I'm kinda hoping the last major paragraph sparks an interesting conversation, though. Or it at least gets people thinking. I like making people think...
Enjoy your evening, Everybody.
The current best guess is that the universe comes to rest infinitely in equilibrium - "heat death" - where no more energy can be exchanged and it'll just sit there for an infinitely long duration - something can also just be infinite and never repeat states
It gets wildly trippier than that though, if you ever want to talk quantum mechanics interpretations and the absurdity of objective wave function collapse theories hit me up I'm your cat XD
I've heard heat death being one of three possibilities for the end of the universe. I know that a big rip is another, that's mostly because we still don't understand dark energy - the hypothesized counterbalance to gravity, and how that could influence how the universe ends up.
It's definitely easier to think about it just always existing, into infinity, because our only current way of understanding space and time is as existing forces. But they don't necessarily need to always exist either - maybe. I don't want to make an absolute statement about something that I can't possibly know.
On one of our future hangouts, we should get into this more. I liked the colonization talk that we had.
I'll have to check out that series. In response to this post, I got a book that talks about infinity in all of its glory. It's called The Infinite Book A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless, and Endless by John D Barrow. I'm still at a point where I'm kind of absorbing and understanding it, but it's an interesting and fascinating read, so far.