John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readNov 8, 2021

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You are referencing two concepts, absolute and infinite, without really distinguishing between them, even though in the course of the essay, they imply differences. It's like with absolute, you seem to say, what is, but then with infinite, you have to go beyond that.

As I've come to see basic physics, there is no material substrate. At best it's quantization of some dynamic.

Possibly best encapsulated as positive and negative charge.

So what is the absolute? Possibly that neutral state, of which positive and negative are the two sides? The zero between +1 and -1.

Consider that in Special Relativity, in the frame traveling at the speed of light, the measures of time and distance shrink to zero, as any measurement of them would have to exceed C. So consider going in the opposite direction, to where the clock is fastest and the ruler is the longest; Presumably that would imply some equilibrium state. The unmoving void of absolute zero.

The consider infinity; Logically space is infinite, as any bounds would express their own limits, implying further bounds, etc. It's like the number line, going from zero to infinity.

So which then is God? Is it everything, or is it nothing? Or are these two sides of a coin that cannot be expressed otherwise? A yin and yang, each reflecting and giving expression to the other, like positive and negative charge.

Yet couldn't we say that God is the coin itself, both sides together. Thesis and antithesis, giving rise to synthesis?

Though if we combine them, wouldn't they cancel out, some flatline between the ups and downs?

If they remain separate, there will always be that tension, fluctuation and feedback.

Maybe that's necessary, since our reality is tension, fluctuation and feedback.

Even galaxies are cosmic convection cycles, of energy radiating out, towards infinity, while form coaleces in, toward equilibrium.

Synchronization is centripetal, while harmonization is centrifugal. Thus nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields. Absolute and infinite.

It seems we need both, as we are that sentient interface between the body and its context.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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