My answer:

I use my infinite resources to become benevolent dictator of Earth.

With my endless wealth I prevent climate change, provide the basic needs of every person on the planet, educate the world, and set up a global system of sustainable reproduction. I have infinite resources so I assume it's not eugenics or something dystopian, but more a collective human understanding of responsibility. Finally, with our future ensured, I dedicate as many of the world's top minds as possible to preserving my own life at any cost.

Once I have achieved immortality, likely by transplanting my mind into a robot body that can be updated over time so I remain the most advanced being on the planet, I steer the course of human history far into the future. All human suffering is ended. We all work as one to better ourselves. We spend decades, centuries, millennia improving not only our society, but our technology for inserting ping pong balls into 747s.

Under my kind leadership as an immortal god-king of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence, humanity becomes the dominant species in a surprisingly crowded universe. With each new species we meet, we find new allies in our advancement. Entire galaxies unite under my rule and never-ending resources, each furthering my transcendence of life and the speed at which we can put small plastic balls into extremely archaic public transportation.

Finally, at the far end of time, when there is nothing left to learn, no secret of the universe left unknown to me—I am now a single bio-mechanical entity composed of all intelligent life in existence—my setup is complete. Using technology so advanced that it cannot be described by words we have so far invented, technology so unimaginable it exceeds the power we ascribe to magic, I fill the plane. It is instantaneous. There is no time during which the plane is being filled. There is only before and after it was filled.

The creator of the universe descends on its final moments. The being sees the plane. It weeps for the beauty its children have created.

> when there is nothing left to learn,

I only logged in to comment on this :-)

This won't happen, ever. That's because new things to learn are being created all the time!

For example, when there was no horse there was no horse riding. When there was no computer there was no programming. Just two infinitesimal examples to demonstrate what I mean.

Knowledge of "basics of the universe" such as quantum theory are of no use to a "higher order" being such as ourselves when almost all of us apart from a few physicists work on much higher planes. The matter and energy of the universe is constantly being rearranged to create more and more and higher higher order problems, you will _never_ run out of new ones. First we create the problem, than we solve it, creating new ones (and the whole universe does it too, and biological stuff especially) :-)

Who am I going to believe, a human in 2018, or a transcendent being composed of the unity of life in all its forms across the entire universe who has dedicated an unfathomable amount of time to uncovering every mystery related to ping pong balls and 747s?

> how would you fill the inside of a 747 with ping pong balls

Funny you should ask, because that was actually one of my primary responsibilities at my last job!

Infinite setup time: In the vacuum of space, as t -> infinity, eventually random quantum fluctuations will spontaneously create a 747 full of ping pong balls.

If there's a specific number of balls, that's a great answer; if you need to fill up the interior, you're gonna need a lot more balls!!

All ping pong balls may now be "inside" the plane, given this approach, but he's done a horrendously poor job of filling the plane.

Not really. It is as full as possible. :)