Trapped
2200 AD The Universe Existing in a Bottle
A boundary to the universe
A limit to the significance of man
Trapped
Part II of VII
Topological mathematics developed the Klein bottle in the 1900’s, a three dimensional bottle in three dimensional space that only has two dimensions. What does this mean? Everyone was saying, “So, what?” All but a few theoretical mathematicians let the concept go. Now, however, two hundred years later, the Klein bottle resurfaces. Scientists have found what appears to be the outer limits of our universe. Mathematicians have plotted its configuration to be an exact replica of the inside of a Klein bottle. Most bottles are three dimensional and have an inside and outside. The Klein bottle, however, is a three dimensional bottle having only two dimensions.
A Klein bottle appears to those on the outside as having no inside. On the other hand, to those inside, the Klein bottle appears to have no outside.
The universe surrounded by God is like a bottle that, to some-one outside the bottle, appears to have no inside and to someone on the inside, it appears to have no outside. To God, the bottle appears to have no inside. God, however, having created the Klein bottle and having been in and out of these bottles many times, knows differently. God knows exactly why It created the bottle and also knows the emptiness It feels from having used the bottle. The empty feeling God senses is the same empty feeling we feel when we lose a loved one, when we lose a limb. God senses a loss because It is missing a portion of Itself. It is missing the portions of Itself It has sent into seemingly infinite numbers of Klein bottles, the many Klein bottles It has created within Itself and dispersed throughout Itself. A sense of loss, a sense of attachment, a sense of connection, a sense of love, a sense of anticipation for the inevitable reunion to follow and on and on it goes for God has no limit, not even a limit to Its potential for growth. The very reason God created these Klein bottles was the need for growth.
To be continued: Part III of VII: To those on the inside the bottle, there are two choices. In both cases, the concept of the Klein bottle begins much the same but...