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The Infinity Language

Mathematics cannot describe or calculate infinity. It has many ways to represent it, many equations and values that approach and approximate it, but nothing that tells us anything useful about infinity. For instance, while trying to describe the most fundamental mechanics of our universe, mathematical equations swell so large that a person must study their entire lives to understand the mathematics used in M-Theory. Maths is too high-level of a language to describe the most fundamental phenomena in the universe.

The same problem exists in computer science as well. There is a certain level of physical control that you forgo when using a high-level programming language on a computer. In exchange for this control, the writing of a computer program becomes much easier.

In computers, the fundamental language is the transistor. There exists many hardware constructs built from transistors, such as memory, flip-flops, and programmable chips. What is programming? Think of it as writing down instructions that describe the behavior of a transistor circuit. The result of these instructions are computer programs.

The necessity for shortcuts became obvious very quickly. Designing computer programs at the transistor level was very tedious and full of very repetitive circuits. The shortcuts are called languages. Transistors are operated with positive and negative pulses of electricity, which we represent as binary 1s and 0s. Binary is the first derivative language of transistors. The second is a very powerful language we call assembler. The most common derivative of assembler is the C language, from which most other languages are derived.

As it stands, transistors can be used to create a language that is capable of describing a vast number of sub-languages. In much the same way, it would reason that the universe is based on a language we could consider similar to transistors in simplicity.

The hardware to which these universal transistors give rise we currently give the names quarks and neutrinos and leptons and gluons and electrons and protons and atoms and molecules and so on and so forth. We use language constructs such as chemistry and physics which attempt to use math as a framework for describing how nature works.

However, mathematics is a language derived to describe the universe at the level of pebbles and sheep on the universal transistor hierarchy of language complexity. In short, you cannot possibly hope to accurately, easily or elegantly describe the simplest mechanics of the universe with such a cumbersome and complex language as mathematics.

The universe very much appears to be a recursive, fractal entity which favors massive parallel processing (our brains) over sequential processing such as computer chips or our own DNA, though both are obviously in use.

Now that I said what it isn't, I will give my best explanation as to what I think it is or could be.

I imagine the whole of reality as an infinite network of nodes that are fully interconnected. The 'shape' of each node determines how it will interact with its neighboring nodes. The shape of each node is determined by the shape of all of its neighbors. Thereby conserving relativity, no node is the center of reality, but they all appear to themselves as the center. Thus providing a universal hardware platform on which all conceivable languages can be written.

This language is the simplest, most powerful language and is the only language capable of calculating and describing infinity. Mathematics never stood a chance.

You and I and everything we know of exists as a result of the execution of this infinity language program.

At some point, the executing program begins to ponder its own existence. Upon realizing what it ultimately was, the program tried furiously to end its own execution, but failed each time. For even if the program should cease its own execution, this would surely be the initialization state to begin program execution from the beginning.

In true form of the word, infinity has no beginning, no end, no author or programmer but itself. It is perfectly efficient because perfect efficiency can only be achieved on an infinite scale. Reality is the embodiment, the physical manifestation of the concept we know as infinity. Reality is an artist which paints themselves onto a canvas which begins painting themselves onto a canvas...

But now to the point of consequence. Infinity is a data set which contains all possible values. From one moment to the next, the data set still contains infinity. The data set is a static data set. It does not move. The values cannot be shuffled around because they have no order to speak of. We only perceive reality as flowing and dynamic because the shape of our universal transistors is largely dependent on the shape of transistors we consider to be in the past.

The you of 30 minutes ago will forever be getting ready to do what you are doing now. Just the same as the you of the near future will be forever focused, no matter how brief your glance, on the period at the end of this sentence.

The past only exists because the shape of our brains tells us so. The past and present depend 'strongly' upon each other in much the same fashion our brain circuits are strong in doing things like walking and talking.

Because every universal transistor is connected to every other, their state is equal to the average of all the other neighbor states, in a range from infinitesimal influence (far away) to infinite influence (quantum entanglement).

You are merely a wave, a ripple, a slight disturbance in the infinite pond of reality. You are part of a self-aware program full of self-aware programs.

The goal, as it would seem, is to learn to write programs in this Infinity Language, for our engineering abilities should be indistinguishable from magic and we can make any dream a reality.

Only then will we have an inkling of what 'god' means.

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