Mega-Reality

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Albert Einstein once said, "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."  Was he correct?

Mega-Reality is a philosophical consideration that poses the question, is the scope of reality so far beyond human comprehension that our minds are utterly and forever incapable of even beginning to imagine it, much less understand it?

When one reflects on Einstein’s statement, one may begin to appreciate just how profound, how awesome, it is.  Why should the human intellect be able to work out, understand, and explain the atom, the galaxies, and the vast cosmos?  Of all the creatures in nature, why should our species have discerned that the world is round, and that it orbits the sun?  Why should we have sent men to the moon and back?  Why should we have sent unmanned missions to Mars, and photographed not only it, but also the surface of Titan, one of the moons of distant Saturn?  And Pluto!

Why is the human brain such that, some few of them, are capable of such wonders?  Even for those of us who cannot fathom such things, even our ordinary brains are enormously complex, potentially capable of farming, building large structures, and making complex music, or writing the great novel?

Are there any limits to what we can do?

Or is there a mega-reality, one which is so all-encompassing, so utterly unlike anything we can imagine, that our greatest potential to understand it is less than the ability of an ant to understand the deepest depths of the ocean?

We tend to think in terms of the familiar.  That is what makes quantum theory and relativity so perplexing.  They step beyond the familiar.  Yet, even these, strange as they are, are descriptions of a familiar universe, one that has space and time and energy and matter. 

But what of other universes?  Physicists have seriously proposed that there are untolled numbers of them, perhaps infinities of them.  Yet, even here, the physicists are drawing upon the familiar, speculating that other universes might be unlike ours in appearance, but in principle, universes nonetheless. 

An ostrich and a hummingbird are both birds, however unlike each other they are.  A humming bird and a whale are both animals.  A hummingbird and a rock are both physical objects.  Universes are universes.

But mega-reality poses the question, are there realities that are not universes at all?  Are there realities in which space and time and energy and matter do not exist?  We have no familiar experience in which to even begin to imagine such a reality. 

Scientists propose that our one universe may extend infinitely in all directions, with no limits, no end.  That alone is mind-boggling, but it is also possible that infinite numbers of infinitely large universes may exist.  And those are just the universes.  Might the span and scope of reality include things that are not universes?  And might there be infinite numbers of such realities?  Infinite varieties?

Finally, are all these proposed realities part of one mega-reality?

Einstein may have been correct about the comprehensibility of our universe, but one must wonder, are there also incomprehensible realities beyond ours, beyond imagining?

Yes, or no, either answer has profound implications.

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