If God is the Absolute Infinite, the Ein Sof, then I think we are entering very interesting territory. Why? Because I don’t believe there is ANYTHING in the physical Universe that is infinite. I don’t believe there are an infinite number of photons, particles, quarks or neutrinos. Our Universe it appears is finite in size and contains a finite amount of stuff. So everything we can know (or ever know) in the real physical world appears to be made out of finite quantities – we won’t find God in the physical Universe.
Where do we find Infinities? The only place I know of where we find Infinity is in mathematics. Now that’s strange. We use mathematics to explain the real world to high accuracy, and we even carry out integrations over infinity to give answers that correspond to realities in the real world – and yet infinity does not seem to be part of the real world.
So am I saying God is Mathematics? No I am not. But can you see that Mathematics might give us a clue as to what God actually is? The Absolute Infinite was contemplated by Georg Cantor as an infinity that transcended the transfinite numbers. It should be noted that Cantor equated the Absolute Infinite with God! Cantor believed that the Absolute Infinite possessed mathematical properties including the reflection principle which states that every property of the Absolute Infinite is also held by some smaller object. It is sad to relate that Georg Cantor, along with several other famous mathematicians/physicists who dared to venture into the realm of the infinite encountered severe mental problems leading to death.
We are now coming to the end of this piece. How can a finite Mind contemplate and work with infinite quantities? I suppose the trite answer is that it cannot and it leads to madness, which in itself is extremely interesting, because as we all know “Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad”. But now consider the reason our finite minds can work with the Infinite is due to the reflection principle, so that every property of the Absolute Infinite is also held by some smaller object – ourselves!
