Infinity

The space inside of a basketball is bounded by the basketball itself. And yet it is infinite. Anyone who believes that is an idiot. Right? Maybe. But then again maybe not. Imagine that a sphere, exactly one half the dimensions of the basketball and existing inside the basketball. Now imagine another sphere precisely one half the dimensions of this inner sphere. And then another sphere inside that one, and so on until you come to the final.... Ah, but there is no final sphere. Because the half sizing of the space within each sphere continues endlessly.

So, when you hold a basketball within your hands you are actually grasping infinity. Of course you don't know what to do with it. Except to throw it to a team mate. Dribble this infinite space upon the floor of a basketball court. Throw it at a basket for a field goal or an extra point. Or maybe hold it between your left upper arm and left side just below the armpit while thus holding the basketball hold as best you can your left hand as high as possible with the palm down and with the fingers of your right hand pointing to the ceiling and pressed against your left palm in order to signal to the officials that you want a time out.

Of course basketballs are not the only balls that enclose infinity. Baseballs do it. So do tennis balls, volleyballs, golfballs, matza balls, soap bubbles, marbles, even footballs. Which brings up other shapes beside spheres. Cylinders, and pyramids, tori and cubes, rectangular boxes, cones, any three dimensional shapes you can think of all enclose infinity. The same must be true of four dimensional shapes as well. So you see, infinity can be bounded. And you can actually hold infinity within your hand, inside of which there is also infinite space.