3 Concepts Of Pure Vastness

Our goal, with this essay, is exploring.

Exploring three new concepts of infinity, big numbers, and vastness.

Just to be specific.

Concept 01: Generative Sets

A set is a collection.

Or, perhaps, a container?

A container of what?

Anything.

Books. Ideas. Philosophies. Thoughts. People. Spaces.

And so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

Regardless of those bits and pieces, a set is, fundamentally, a collection of a set number of things.

Just as an example, if you have a set that contains an infinite number of books, then that set contains an infinite number of books.

That’s the essence of it all.

But, what if it wasn’t?

Or, more specifically, what if a set was more than a container?

What if a set was also, in its own way, a generator?

Or, a producer, grower, maker; ad infinitum?

Just imagine a set with an infinite number of books.

Our set contains these books, within its unending vastness.

Right within this set, there is a “code.”

Or, perhaps, a structure, made of code, that allows this set to perform a variety of functions.

Just as you might assume, one of these functions is generation.

Our set generates an infinite number of new books, across an endless wealth of moments.

On some level, this is silly; infinity is already as vast as they come, one might argue, so this addition does nothing.

Even so, though, one can imagine that the new infinities, created by this set, transcend the infinities already present.

The set, then, serves as a transcendent mechanism through which infinity grows beyond itself.

Grows beyond itself, infinitely and endlessly; ad infinitum.

A single infinity turns into an infinitely greater infinity.

And so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

A neverending wealth of infinitely greater quantities of books are generated.

But, that’s not all.

A neverending wealth of new, infinitely vast, sets are generated.

Each one of these sets is contained within the set it is grown from.

Every set contains an infinite number of endless books.

And so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

You can play with this concept in a wide variety of interesting ways.

Right now, though, this is sufficient.

Just imagine an infinite set, with infinite items, that generates infinite infinities.

And, then, imagine infinitely greater sets, being contained within that set.

Ad infinitum.

Just imagine such a thing.

Concept 02: Vast Bodies Of Time

Our second concept is inspired by the Hindu idea of a “Kalpa.”

What is a Kalpa?

A period of time that is equal to 4.32 billion years.

There is a lot more to it than that; a whole philosophy, really. But, that is the essence of a kalpa.

Just imagine, then, a body of time that contains 538 trillion years.

That’s a lot of time.

If you were to count from one to one billion, it would take you about 32 years.

And, if you were to count from one to 538 trillion, it would take you 17,216,000 years.

Or, about 17.2 million years.

Our body of time is named “Neria.”

Just imagine Neria, with her 538 trillion years.

And, then, imagine that there are 538 trillion Neria’s, each of which comes together to create a new body of time.

If you were to multiply 538 trillion, by 17,216,000, you would get “9,262,208,000,000,000,000,000.”

That’s about nine sextillion. And, it’s the number of years it would take you, to count the 538 trillion Neria’s.

If you just wanted to get an idea of how many years 538 trillion Neria’s contains, though, that would be about 289 octillion.

That number, written out, is 289,444,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Just to simplify things, though, we will call this new body of time — 538 trillion Neria’s — “Jinora.”

A nice, simple name.

Every Jinora contains 538 trillion Neria’s.

Or, to make things a little more blunt, 538 trillion bodies of 538 trillion years.

Our third, and final, body of time, is 538 trillion Jinora’s.

This is 538 trillion bodies of 289 octillion years.

And, the number of years that this new body of time contains is 155 tredecillion years.

Or…155,720,872,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

The amount of time it would take you to count that number is unclear to me. But, it would take a very long time.

Our third, and final, body of time can be called “Aliyah.”

Just for fun, you can imagine 538 trillion Aliyah’s.

And so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

A neverending process of growth, expansion, and transcendence.

Concept 03: Slivers

Our third, and final, concept, is rooted in the idea of a second.

Just imagine a single second.

Right after that, imagine this second being comprised of 158 billion little pieces.

Sort of like nanoseconds. But, smaller; there are one million nanoseconds in a single second.

And, then, imagine that, within one of those 158 billion little pieces — we’ll call them “Slivers,” just for fun — there are 158 billion even smaller pieces.

These smaller pieces are called “Sliver Depths.”

Right within every Sliver Depth, there are 158 billion even smaller pieces.

These smaller pieces are called “Micro-Slivers.”

And so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

The process never, ever ends.

But, what’s fun about this, is that if you were to, somehow, go through an infinite number of items, within a set not unlike the one we outline earlier, within, say, every Micro-Silver, for 158 billion years, you would never, ever reach the end, or any limits, to the infinitude of that set.

Fun, right?

Outside of that, there is one more fact to clarify.

If you were to go through the Slivers within a second, by counting one of them every second — yes, this is paradoxical and odd, given our conceptual schema — it would take you about 5,056 years.

A second is a lot bigger than one might assume.

Or, at least, it can be.

Conclusion

Just to wrap this up, the world of infinity is exciting.

And, so is the world of big numbers, mathematical functions, infinitesimal numbers.

Ad infinitum.

My hope is that you enjoyed this essay.

No matter what, though, thank you so much for reading.