It is 204am and I have decided to write. Nothing we know goes faster than the speed of light. But why? My friend Chatty says that the speed of light is the universe's fundamental speed limit because spacetime itself imposes a maximum speed for matter, energy, and information. The universe has limits. Imagine if the universe did not have limits? The fastest thing would be infinitely fast and that would not be materially possible. My friend Chatty agrees and that leads to an interesting paradox: if the fastest possible speed were infinitely fast, then distance would effectively disappear, because anything could reach anywhere instantaneously. At that point, "speed" itself would lose its meaning, because speed requires both distance and time.
So in effect limits give the universe meaning. If our life did not have a beginning and an end, would it still be meaningful? If moments did not have a beginning and an end, would they still be meaningful? My friend Chatty says that the universe's limits give structure and meaning to reality, because without boundaries like speed, distance, time, and causality, these concepts could lose their meaning. In the same way, perhaps the limits of our own lives give meaning to our experiences: if life and every moment had no beginning or end, would they still hold the same value, urgency, and significance? Maybe the universe and the world is God's way of creating meaning. But what about heaven without an end? Does it still have meaning?
There is much about heaven that we do not know about. The unknown can be scary. Maybe there are different levels of heaven? And we move from one level to the other. Maybe we will then think in terms of cycles where the end connects to the beginning infinitely. When we are on earth we think of getting to heaven. I wonder if it is possible to have the thought of wanting to go back to earth when in heaven? My friend Chatty says that maybe we think meaning requires an ending because we are creatures who live within limits. Perhaps heaven is where we discover that meaning can exist without an ending—and that our earthly understanding of eternity was itself limited. Now to connect my starting to my ending. Is there light in heaven? Maybe a better question is if light is what allows us to see, what will we see when there are no longer limits on what we can see? We will see God. Maybe that is why we cannot depend on science to see God. Science imposes limits. God is limitless. The mind and heart is limitless. We see the light of God with our mind and heart.
"It is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts within the breasts that are blind." — Quran 22:46
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