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the firmament's splash, behold it in his soul as beholding the the width of deserts and nights until, in exhaustion, he fell asleep with the constellations transfigured in every one of his parts, only to see Plato's light after having dreamed, mathematically, what Borges'11 once dreamed:
«I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second, or perhaps less; I am not sure how many birds I saw. Was the number of birds definite or indefinite? The problem involves the existence of God. If God exists, the number is definite, because God knows how many birds I saw. If God does not exist, the number is indefinite, because no one can have counted. In this case I saw fewer than ten birds (let us say) and more than one, but did not see nine, eight, ... or two birds. I saw a number between ten and one, which was not-nine, eight, seven, six, five, etc. That integer 3⁄4 not-nine, not-eight, not-seven, not-six, not-five, etc. 3⁄4 is inconceivable. Ergo, God exists.»
For he ought to have had mercy on us, two millenia afterwards, in a brane new world, still musing on the same uncertainties, revising the classical path of particles from A to B into Feynman's12 proposed new path: «a particle takes every possible path» 3⁄4 and like Feynman's kaleidoscope, the unmoved first
11 Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. “Argumentum Ornithologicum” NY, USA: The Penguin Group. Viking, 1998. 299
12 Hawking, Stephen. The Universe in a Nutshell. NY, USA: Bantam Books, 2001. 83.
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