Endless detail, certainly forever.

I have always wondered how zoomable reality is, how deep can we go before there really is nothingness. I know that in science there is nothingness between the moving parts of an atom but I question if this is completely true or if there is another layer we are yet incapable of seeing due to inferior tools. Perhaps some science types have an answer.

At some point however, the smallest particles that 'existed' were the ones that were observable to the naked eye but as technological advances took place on the back of observational inference, new worlds opened up to us that have massively changed our abilities to create new tools to look deeper.

What is interesting however, is that at each stage of discovery, those involved often felt that this breakthrough was the best information and there is unlikely to be more. This meant that decisions were made on the best information available, which makes sense. But the resolution of the measuring tools of the information was far from precise.

This is why even the oldest of traditions should be revisited often as the ability to look deeper than the last instance is developed. In this way, rules may change, get discarded or reinforced based on a continual reevaluation cycle that is in constant improvement.

We are pretty clever animals, but nothing we create or know is certainly forever.

This is just a little green bug on a red wild flower bulb. Barely visible with the naked eye, better through the lens, detailed through a microscope but, what is it thinking?

We can infer, but can we ever know?

Taraz
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