Chapter 12: The Irony of Pi
I already established the fact that if we pick any mass in space, it will always need the constant c² to exist. Therefore it follows that, from the circle below, the amount of energy/mass in that space will always equal to c²:
Mass inside this circle has the constant c²
It is definitely correct to say that the above circle has the constant c² to exist, for without c², energy and mass cannot combine together to exist as that circle. It is also true to say that if we need to find the area inside this circle, we need to know the constant “pi,” π, for the formula to find an area of a circle is πr² (pi times the radius of the circle squared).
Ironically, pi is an endless number. To find it, we simply need to divide the circumference of the circle by its diameter. And no matter how big or small a circle is the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter will always equal to:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172 to infinity.
This means the area of that circle has an infinite amount of space. Obviously, when we need to work with circles, we don’t need to know the entire infinite number of pi to make use of them; however, we cannot argue that the area of that space is a finite number. We have to round the number off at some point or we will never reach an accurate record for the area of any circle. Yet the more accurate you wish to have your space inside your circle, the more digits of pi must be considered.
Perhaps to mathematicians or engineers who are completely satisfied with only using a finite number of pi, arguing that an area of a circle has an infinite amount of digits does not seem relevant to anything. However, to someone like me, who is trying to argue that we currently live within a Universal Thought world, this irony of pi makes a huge relevance to everyone’s life.
Picture the size of an atom. Not only is it so small that we cannot see what an atom looks like, but it is also mainly empty space. It is an actual fact to say that an atom is mainly 99.99% of empty space. So if I put this statement into an equation, it looks like this:
1 atom = 99.99% x empty space
In reality, if the circle I drew represents a magnified version of an atom, the circumference of the circle can be where all the microscopic-sized electrons are floating around the nucleus, or the center of the circle, which holds all the protons and neutrons. But the nucleus is also so small that we probably wouldn’t be able to see it, even if I magnified a real atom to the size of that circle. If we magnified an atom to the size of perhaps a large football stadium, the nucleus will still be so small that we may still have a difficult time trying to find it.
Ultimately, however, all of us are made up of this 99.99% of empty space. And we are mainly living and breathing in this world of empty space. Ironically, it also requires an enormous, god-like amount of energy to make this empty space exist as it exists today. Without god-like energy of biblical proportions, our 99.99% of empty space will really be nothing but 100% empty space. However, because there exists infinite amounts of energy, billions upon billions of atoms can be put together to forge a universe that we are currently in. And within this universe we have been granted limitless energy to work with.
As we carry on our lives moving into the future, consider carefully everything I just said. An enormous amount of energy has been put forth into the creation of our being, which seems to have come from almost “nothingness.” Yet we exist with deep amounts of emotions and feelings. We must remind ourselves then that our creation is something very special. We must have great purpose in our lives for all this creation to have even happened. Ultimately, we will all understand this fact soon. And we will make the universe a brighter and better place to live.