The Infinity (l'Infini)
The historical share of Japan in production of gold is about 2% of all the world.
But, today, in Japanese cities there are many industrial products that contain gold as their component material. The total amount of such gold in Japan is equal to 16% of the amount of current deposit of gold in the world.
However in the early 17th century, Japan produced silver in an amount of 200,000 kg per year, which accounts for one third of the then world production of silver.
Incidentally, at the end of the 17th century, Japan produced the largest amount of copper in the world.
As for coal, in 1940 before the start of the Second World War Japan domestically produced 56.3 million tons of coal. Yet, Japan has only a small amount of deposit of crude oil and uranium.
Your view on Japan might a little change, though.
CHAPTER I: Infinity
In the domain of the infinity every number becomes zero.
First, no number can be bigger than the infinity, say, M.
M + 1 = M, then (M + 1) - M = M - M,
therefore 1 = 0.
M + 9 = M, then (M + 9) - M = M - M,
therefore 9 = 0.
But 0 can be valid in this domain as 1/M = 0,
since M x (1/M) = 1. And, as 1 = 0, in this domain,
M x (1/M) = 1 = 0,
therefore 1/M = 0.
So, in the domain of the infinity M every number becomes zero while 1/M = 0.
It is apparent that the God created M and zero prior to 1 to 9 and any other numbers. (In this context, 1 to 9 and any other numbers are derivatives from zero.)
Note, in this domain M + M cannot be defined, though...
SECTION II: Finite Possibility and Infinite Gain
A possibility is usually measured with a ratio between 0% and 100% or 0 to 1.
Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist Blaise Pascal that even if the existence of God could not be determined through reason, a rational person should wager as though God exists...
The philosophy uses the following logic (excerpts from Pensées, part III, note 233):
"God is, or He is not"
A Game is being played... where heads or tails will turn up.
According to reason, you can defend neither of the propositions.
You must wager. It is not optional.
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. (...) There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain...
The possibilities defined by Pascal's Wager can be thought of as a decision under uncertainty with the values of the following decision matrix...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
If a possibility that God exists is not 0%, you should believe in God. It is because gain you can get if God exists is infinite. If a possibility God exists is 1/2, you are no longer sane any more unless you believe in God.
Of course, gain in this context is, first of all, an absolute conviction that you have done an absolutely right thing.
Anyway, Pascal's Wager seems to be the first practical example in history that the infinity is applied.
SECTION III. The Whole and Parts
A set can be composed of an infinite number of elements.
It can have subsets that can be composed of an infinite number of elements or a finite number of elements.
Apparently a man, which is finite, has a spiritual set that includes a subset that can be composed of an infinite number of elements.
A link with God is in this way written in spiritual DNA of a man.
All you have to do is find the way to the infinity in your spirit.
Yet, remember that zero is so close to the infinity more than we think.
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