A Trip to Infinity, a stellar documentary from Netflix, describes infinity as a concept connected to zero as both describe something beyond the notion of number in trying to describe reality in a way indirectly related to Tao or Zen as both attempt to describe existence without the need to parse numbers. Yours truly has talked about infinities within a finite space as seen by the Mandelbrot set, the Menger Sponge and Cantor Dust as all three endlessly subdivide space in ways most enchanting to viewers like myself. Another take on infinity centers on chaos as the law of initial conditions and the inability to exact repeatability is, as quoted below, is but a dream as seen by the Lorenz Attractor, endlessly moving through 3 space, coming close to repeating a given track but never quite getting there.
To whit ... As seen by the beautiful Lorenz attractor, used in monitoring temperature variations in weather patterns, the notion of exact repeatability in open systems (in this case, temperature) is but a dream, something duplicated, among other things, in the variance of planet orbits, the growth of ferns or the dripping of a water faucet. Additionally, what is also seen from this research is the emergence of complex behavior coming out of seemingly simple systems, something that has forever changed how we view reality. "and so it goes." KV/Slaughterhouse Five"BRT Sunday, 2007.
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