Asymptotic Reality

For a long time people could not see cells. Then we saw cells only for a long time, before molecules were discovered. Molecules gave way to elements, which eventually gave way to the atom. Atoms begot subatomic particles (your good old protons, electrons, and neutrons), and yet still theese have been reduced to quarks, photons, neutrinos, etc..

And so it seems that matter, the stuff that animates reality (well, I guess energy animates it, but you know what I mean), comes closer and closer to completion without ever reaching it. The word for such a concept is an asymptote. Reality is asymptotic. We can get closer and closer to reducing it, but we never will, for everything we find takes space, so it is reduced further.

And this is the perplexment with reality. Even though something gets smaller and smaller, it never ceases to take up space. Currently we perceive reality as linear, but it is asymptotic in nature. And so is the fault in a reductionist mindset. A reductionist mindset perceives reality as linear, able to being reduced, but that is impossible, since reality is asymptotic, not linear.