A Peek into the Infinite

Numbers without end suggest existence is analogously vast

Pi was just calculated to 100,000,000,000,000 digits, each one 10x more precise than its predecessor, an impressive feat. But remember the ubiquitous pi has long been proven to be both irrational and transcendental, zooming off into a 100% deterministic yet unpredictable infinite series.

By extension, imagining an infinite Multiverse where everything possible is also real and repeated an infinite number of times is easier for me to wrap my head around than Reality having any kind of absolute boundary or limit. What the hell would be “outside” it?

I truly believe Max Tegmark is onto something when he posits that Reality can best be described mathematically, and as such is fundamentally mathematical in nature. Existence isn’t math per se, but that’s the best language we have for imagining what “It” is.

Quantum mechanics, cosmology, and biological sciences all convincingly reveal that even the most essential building blocks of our perception of the world are as distant from Reality as images on a video game monitor are from the software code running on an X-Box.

So why are we here? How did we come into existence? If we accept that space and time are emergent phenomena generated by our interaction with the…