You are reasonable and your views are balanced. But have you ever tasted infinity? Have you ever felt the pain and destruction that befalls he who no longer has the strength left to push the immense block any further? Have you ever tasted the bitterness that is doled out to anyone who wishes to create beyond himself? What shall I tell you about the abandonment, the loneliness, the hell of desperation?
(Mantıklı birisin ve görüşlerin dengeli. Ama hiç sonsuzluğu tattın mı? Artık o muazzam engeli daha fazla itecek gücü kalmayan kişinin başına gelen acıyı ve yıkımı hiç hissettin mi? Kendinin ötesinde bir şey yaratmak isteyen herkesin payına düşen acıyı hiç tattın mı? Terk edilme hissini, yalnızlığı, çaresizliğin cehennemini sana nasıl anlatayım?)
Near Archimedes' Syracuse there is one of the most beau-tiful sites in Italy, the theatre of Taormina, which looks out at the Mediterranean and upon Mount Etna, the smoking volcano. In Archimedes' time, the theatre was used to stage plays by Sophocles and Euripides. The Romans adapted it for gladiatorial combat, for the pleasure of watching gladia-tors die.
The sophisticated playfulness of The Sand Reckoner is perhaps not only about an audacious mathematical construction, or the virtuosity of one of the most extraordi-nary minds of antiquity. It is also a defiant cry of reason, which recognizes its own ignorance but refuses to delegate to others the source of knowledge. It is a small, reserved and powerfully intelligent manifesto against infinity against obscurantism.
Quantum gravity is one of the many lines that continue the quest of The Sand Reckoner. We are counting the grains of space of which the cosmos is made. A vast cosmos, but a finite one.
The only truly infinite thing is our ignorance. /
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William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower;
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Bir kum tanesinde bir dünya,
Bir kır çiçeğinde bir cennet görebilmek;
Sonsuzluğu avcunun içinde
Ebediyeti bir tek saatte tutabilmek.
"The first moments of the transformation are the critical ones. Your awareness must drive inward and outward simultaneously, one with Infinity."
Kahkahalarla, gözyaşlarıyla, kavgalarla, kucaklaşmalarla, itiraflarla, sessizliklerle ve kalbin ani dürtüleriyle dolu uzun bir hayat: ve yine de bazen zaman hiç geçmemiş gibi geliyor. Gelecek hâlâ sonsuzluğa doğru uzanıyor.
A long life filled with laughter, tears, quarrels, embraces, confessions, silences, and sudden impulses of the heart: and yet sometimes it seems that time has not moved by at all. The future still stretches out to infinity.
