Zeno's Paradox and the Infinity of Everything

The following article contains an idea that might not be accepted by everyone, due to it being innovative, and yet, very obscure, even for my standard. It based on one of Zeno's paradoxes, called the "Dichotomy" or the "Race Course" paradox.

Take note that the term "Dichotomy" is don't have the same definition it has today, as in this case it means splitting, rather than presenting polar opposites.

For those who don't know, Zeno was an ancient Greek philosopher who came up with the paradox I'll draw this article's logic from.

Basically, if you are to begin moving from point A to point B, you will never begin the journey nor end it, simply because of the infinity of numbers, assuming reality is built on the foundation of numbers.

In other words, you will never reach your destination because in order to reach a different place than your current one, you'll have to reach halfway there, and to do so, you must reach the distance's quarter, which is the half of the current half that was discussed.

The list can go long so infinitely, you technically cannot even begin your movement, because there is no end to the dividing of numbers, since they are absolute, yet infinite.

This brings us to make a decision between two conclusions -- either numbers are not sufficient to determine and construct reality, because reality isn't infinite, or accept that everything is infinite, including reality itself.

Practically, beyond philosophical contemplation, most things are finite. Money, time, life, emotions and so forth -- by "everything" I mean not infinite resources, but infinite in terms of zooming in and zooming out of things and beings that already exist, even in a limited manner, like consumables.

Have you ever thought to yourself, what if you are actually a breathing universe? What if there are, within you, entities so small that have yet to be observed by contemporary, scientific means?

Beings so small than germs, bacteria and atoms, that they live in their own "world" as in isolation from you, so not you and not them are aware of each other's existence, and yet live in an ignorant state of co-existence?

Let us make it the other way around -- what if this entire universe is in fact the extremely complex structure of a random entity, who lives their own life, wakes up in the morning on a much bigger sun and planet?

According to Wikipedia , quarks are the fundamental particles from which every observable material is built. In other words, as of yet, we can rest assured that the essence of everything that truly exists in reality is made up of quarks, whose theorizer, Murray Gell-Mann, won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics.

If you have ever wondered what everything is made of, science has given you an answer, at least for now.

Gell-Mann's prize was awarded to him 51 years ago. Just imagine what other layers of existence there are that everything is literarily built from.

Another thing that is important to mention, is that quarks have never been seen individually, only in groups of, most commonly, six. Just as a theory, what if these Quarks are planets, and a random object is a galaxy?

What if a room is a collection of extremely small planets, going around each other? What if the Milky Way is just an object that randomly stays in a room, dusty and forgotten, and we can't realize it, because we cannot see it with our independent eyes, and with current technology?

Surely, all of these are obscure, bold claims. The idea of us being in a universe where many unseen planets and civilizations live just like we do, is completely ridiculous to the average person.

However, if we are to learn from Zeno's paradox, that reality has no start nor end because everything is infinite and never reaches a complete zero, like only the void is, perhaps we will never completely find the most basic particle in existence.

As there could not be one, we would only find predecessors, not the ultimate particle, which has no smaller component than itself.

In his paradox, Zeno brings an important insight -- that we are never truly one with someone else. Being exactly in the same place as another is logically impossible, as you cannot take a place that is already taken.

Such a thing can only happen in a video game, where the object is transparent and you can be exactly where it is as your character glitches with it, but I digress.

Infinity, if true, has no start and no end, which makes me think about the universe itself and its need to be created by an external force that itself cannot be created.