An Introduction To Infinity

Look! The blog has had a makeover! Hope you like it.


I'm going to talk about the concept of infinity, something I find mind-boggling but fascinating. If the universe is infinite, there are infinite possibilities. There is another version of you reading this blog right now, doing exactly the same thing. One of you is the king of the World and one of you is a tramp.


Imagine a universe where there are only 2 possible kinds of atom, green and red. These atoms can only bind together in a particular way to form molecules consisting of 4 atoms. Therefore, our model only contains a certain number of possible combinations.


If we take our model and add just one more molecule, we get a duplicate of one that already exists in a finite universe. This is true which ever way the atoms are arranged.


In an infinite universe there is an infinite number of atoms. Thus, an infinite number of molecules and combinations and therefore an infinite number of duplicates.


Expand our simple model to contain all the atoms, all the laws of physics and all the possible combinations in our universe. Now we can begin to visualise an infinite universe... the possibilities are endless.


However, our universe probably isn't infinite and it only contains a limited amount of mass. But, it is destined to continue to expand indefinitely, eventually becoming a cold, dead wasteland.


But... This begs the question:


If our universe isn't infinite, does it have an edge? And if so, what's beyond it?

This kid means business

The headache continues... looking forward to some rest this weekend.

Today's post is brief, but no less amusing. As I was channel-hopping earlier I caught an amazing quote from a kid being interviewed for a TV programme. I have no idea what the programme was called, but I'm pretty sure this line will stay with me forever...

"People have got to take us seriously! We're not seven... We're ten!"

Brilliant.     

Not-so-Miami Vice

Apologies for not posting something yesterday... My sister got back from a 3-week trip to Kenya, with an amazing charity Moving Mountains, so I was busy catching up with her.


Tonight... Well I'm suffering with a splitting headache. I even turned down the chance to go to the cinema with some mates and watch The Expendables. Normally two hours or so of constant explosions and gun-slinging is right up my street, but I couldn't face it.


I didn't want to go another day without posting, but my creativity has been sapped by what feels like a vice around my head. Now off to bed to carry on reading 'What Would Google Do?' by Jeff Jarvis - something of a media/news guru. His blog BuzzMachine is worth following.

This is my blog... but YOU are the reader.

I can write about whatever the hell I like, but that doesn't mean you're interested. Most of you probably don't give a damn. I've set my theme (vague though it may be) but I don't know if I'm hitting the mark.

You are the consumer, so shouldn't you be able to decide what you read?

I'll continue to write about whatever randomly flies through my brain. But if you agree, disagree, hate it, love it, think you know better, learn something, have any opinion what-so-ever... then let me know!

Want to hear my views on a subject? Want to know what I think? Want my opinion on band/song/scientific research/type of bread? Anything! Ask and you shall receive. Email and I shall reply.

I may be the author, but you are the reader, and that is infinitely more important. The doors of this blog are open and I'm inviting you in.

A Brief Apology

I'm going back to junior school to learn English. My last few posts have been terrible, even when apologising. I dare not write more through fear of the universe imploding from my terrible grammar.

Funny Buisness

Apologies for the appalling English in yesterday's post. I was rushing whilst between painting a ceiling and de-constructing a wardrobe.

Check out The Fun Theory. It's a website dedicated to making boring things more fun, changing people's ideas and behaviours for the better.

Here's one of my favourites, the Bottle Bank Arcade Machine...

If Carlsberg did archaeology digs...

I'm currently living in a village, just outside the city of Newport in South Wales, called Caerleon. It's one of the nicer (real word? ah well, you know what I mean) areas of Newport. Not much goes on here. However, there's a lot of boring history.

There's lots of Roman stuff here, it was the site of one of Britain's three permanent Roman Legionary Fortresses. There's a pretty groovy Roman amphitheatre and there's always some archaeology going on. Anyway, enough of the boring background stuff, I'll cut to the chase...

What follows is a genuine photo from the Caerleon website about the most recent dig and their 'findings'...

I'm not making this up. They claim that this box contains some of their 'findings'!

A can of Carlsberg.

A old golf ball.

A clothes label.

A rusty screw.

You can find all these things in my bin! I mean, what the hell!?

I can imagine someone scrabbling through the mud with a tooth-comb, uncovering a shiny piece of metal, grabbing hold of it and thrusting it in the air, exclaiming to their fellow diggers...

"Look what I FOUND!"

Only to then realise it's an old beer can.

"Well... It still counts!"

Then chucking it in the box with the golf ball.

Giggles galore.