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Friday, 13 November 2026

Infinity - Tendai R. Mwanaka

Could infinity be demonstrated?
Using cause and effect.

Water could be the best way
to demonstrate it.

What is water?
What constitute it?

I am not talking of that scientific contrivance H to O thing, no. It’s not a good enough explanation.
There are both living and dead,
living in other contexts animals,
living in other contexts plants
in water, that will always
constitute water.
Water, can it really be lost.
Do we lose anything really?
It’s been there,
Water has been.
It will always be there.

In mathematical terms they are infinities that can’t be dealt with mathematically like some quanta of energy that shows infinity values. To solve them you have to do renormalisation, which is the introduction of other infinites to solve or cancel the first ones. Introducing a pest to solve another pest, thus creating a new pest.

Some wars can be solved that way
Some cannot.
Some wars have too much infinity that can’t be renormalized.

I can think of ethnic wars, and wars
Between religions.
Moslems against Christians, Nigeria,
Israel-Arab warfare…
Are some of these?

The holy war has been ongoing for years now...
Creating the third world war?

The effects of such a war
will
create
infinities
that can’t
be solved.

Tendai R. Mwanaka (born 1973) Zimbabwe
Source: Poetry Pacific

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