I have always, from a very young age, had metaphysical problems that have plagued me to this day. The existence of God, and eternity have been one of them, but perhaps, much more important than the existence of God, has been the problem of eternity, since this is very connected with time, and what is the weather Time is the duration between two points in space, from an observer, my inability to understand the word and content of eternity , has left me many blank nights, and there is no night that, when go to bed, don’t think about her and what the world or life in the Universe will be like, millions of light years from now.
Imagine that a hummingbird that lives on the California coast, every 1 billion light years flies to Mount Everest. There he sharpens his peak with two strokes, one to the left and one to the right, and returns to the California coast and again, flies back to Everest, after another 1 billion light years and and so on until Mount Everest has been completely worn out. This will be a second of eternity!!! It may be a story for children, but on the other hand, it is not at all exaggerated. This problem haunted me and I was looking for answers to questions that I was not able to find. In the end I found a strategic principle that was a very factual answer, that is, eternity is eternal, it has no beginning or end, this is a postulate that I accept, but how long is eternity? Eternity is eternal or in other words, the length of Eternity must be at least as long as from here to the beginning of eternity, and as long as from here to the end, right? Well, that opened up another postulate. We already have some numbers to work with, we already have something. Well, so where are we now? In what kilometer are we from eternity, where topographically?
Well, here I did discover an answer, or at least it seemed to me. The answer is ” a path that has no beginning and no end ” , and if so, I must be in the middle of the path , so all of us are totally in ” the middle of eternity “. The problem is that you cannot measure the beginning nor the end, and the reason for this theory can be compared to a foggy day, in a valley or esplanade, where you are in a place, in front of you you see a distant or near horizon , it depends on whether there is a little or a lot of fog, and if you look back, the distance is exactly the same, as if you look to the side, both left and right. You will always be in the middle, and the fog will be like a circle. You will always be in the middle of this path no matter how much you walk forward or backward, left or right. This also opens up another hypothesis, and that is that the universe is round, isn’t it? Because? Because the strategy is the same, no matter how far you walk (just like a foggy day), you will always be in the center of your world, of your eternal path, the universe, with the particularity that you will have the same distance both forward and back, both to the right and to the left, i.e. a circle. If you move one meter to the left you will be in the center, if you move 1,000 million kilometers light years forward, or backward, or to the left, you will always be in the same place, exactly in the center. When I read the theory that the Universe is curved, I got goosebumps because according to this theory of mine that the Universe is a circle, and that, moreover, there is nothing scientific about it, but quite the opposite , seemed to have a connection.
The idea of knowing what our planet will be like fifty years from now is perhaps predictable, perhaps even within a hundred years, but if we say five hundred years or five thousand years it is already starting to enter out of control territory . Our civilization started 16,000 years ago, that’s not a long time. However, when we talk about a hundred thousand years or 1,000 million years, or 1,000 million light years, the picture is different. The Sun may no longer give light, and the Earth may have no atmosphere. There will be no water in the sea, and there will be no life. We will no longer exist. If the Almighty had made us eternal, now you would be sitting in a chair, watching a lifeless, dark, desolate planet, just like Mars, or some other planet. And this would only be a second of eternity, without us and without the chair, and that day will come, whether we like it or not, but the most important thing is that time is eternal, and it will not stop, it will continue billions of light years . The hummingbird will already be millions and millions of light years away from Everest, and everything will remain the same, impassive, but without us. Perhaps the planet Earth will not exist, there will be no wars, no conquests, no crimes, no evils, no goodness, no love, no poetry, no human efforts, everything will continue the same as at this moment that I write this nonsense. Everything will continue the same and in the best or worst cases, it will never end, because eternity has no end, just as it had no beginning. Eternity is saying goodbye to your children, wife, siblings, family, friends and thinking that you will never, never again, see them again and that you too will never again see a sunrise or a smile from your child or daughter, you will neither kiss your wife, nor smell the scent of a rose, nor hear the song of a bird. I too have hope that there is an Almighty Being, but does that change anything? One God…what will we do for all eternity? And even a little more, because when this eternity ends another will come, because there is no wall or sign that says: “End of eternity” and behind the wall will come more eternity, because eternity is infinite. Our only chance is God. I have no idea what eternity is. To me it is humanity’s greatest metaphysical problem. Maybe an omnipotent God has the solution to my problem. It is as if an ant could understand a mathematical equation, whether it was simple or complicated, it is impossible. The same could be with God, a very complicated problem for me could be silly for an Omnipotent.
Enric Giné i Orengo