Is the human who chases the shadow of God a puppet of God, one who has approached God, or...

Deep within mathematical formulas lies the shadow of God.

Every time we chase that shadow, we touch the boundaries of our own limitations and creation.

Prologue | When you see a conviction you cannot grasp

While studying mathematics, I sometimes think,

“This is already a myth.”When I gaze at prime numbers,

there are moments when I feel as if another will is lurking deep within the world of numbers created by humans.

For example,

countless infinities sleep between 0 and 1.

There is something that is not a number between 9 and 10.

Moments arrive that make you want to doubt the very common sense you have been taught until now.

When I was thinking about the Riemann hypothesis,
I suddenly thought, "Perhaps the decimal system itself is wrong."

I don't know what is wrong with the decimal system, but couldn't I be the one who is right?

The moment I think that, my thoughts heat up and I am forced to shift my perspective.

Perhaps new ideas and technologies are born from places like this.

It is not just that numbers are lined up in an orderly fashion,
but that the common sense in the world is vibrating.

I have written about this in an article before, so please take a look at that as well.

Related article
“The Critical Point of Gestalt”

Chapter I | The hand seeking order is trying to grasp a shadow

There must be regularity in prime numbers.
Believing this, humans have chased that shadow for over a thousand years.

But all that is found are “traces of order.”

There is no perfect regularity there.

Yet, it is not completely irregular either.

The moment you approach perfect regularity,
it vanishes like mist.

Even so, people keep searching.

Because the conviction that cannot be grasped is the very outline of truth.

And eventually, you realize.

Physics and cosmology are also
attempts to depict the shadow of God with mathematical formulas.

Chapter II | Particles and waves, the metaphor in between

When we use the word particle,
we are not looking at an actual "grain" that exists.

It is a metaphor to explain the smallest unit of action.

The concept of a quantum is also
a word born to explain the “discontinuity of existence.”

The world is actually continuous,
and we may just be seeing it divided.

Einstein believed in that continuity,
and Bohr believed in its fragmentation.

Both were right, and both were incomplete.

That is why physics still does not have a “complete explanation.”

The shadow of God is reflected a little in both theories.

Chapter III | To learn is to interfere with the world

The act of “learning” is
an attempt to expand human potential,
and to create a way to interfere with the world.

From the knowledge gained,
what information do you choose, and in what words do you speak?

That choice creates the “shape of the world” for that person.

And silence is also a part of the narrative.

How much to convey, and where to remain silent.

Knowing that might be what it means to live with others.

Chapter IV | The hand trying to grasp the shadow is the true nature of learning

Neither the order of prime numbers nor the structure of the universe
can be fully understood.

However, I believe that the hand trying to grasp that shadow
is the true nature of the act of learning.

There is a place called the “shadow of existence”
that can only be reached by those who have seriously chased the shadow.

What we are earnestly chasing
might be a shadow projected by a God in a higher dimension.

Even so,
in the figure of a human who continues to chase that shadow,
I see the light of “creation.”

Final Chapter | What Lies Beyond the Shadow

To understand the world is not to grasp the light,
but to see the shape of the shadow accurately.
Particles, equations, and words are all

devices for capturing the shadow of God.
If that is the case,

we are all humans chasing the shadow of God.
It is within that pursuit that

intellect turns into beauty, and silence becomes prayer.

🪞 A Question After Reading

What is the "shadow of God" to you?

Within the act of chasing what is unseen,
your learning breathes.

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