As human nature progresses, we often wonder what we are, who we are, and our place in the Universe. It would be totally self-centered to think that we are alone in the universe and that we are the center of everything. We would be no better than when they thought the world was flat and the Sun revolved around the Earth. So where do we fit in? Better yet, where do we exist?
Reflect on this. (Caution, this can cause your brain to hurt.) Imagine that he is a scientist and is studying molecular physics. You look at an item. You see a nucleus and x number of electrons flying around it. You crush it to see what comes out. You do this repeatedly. Every time you get your flash of light and subparticle trails. Your friend is an astronomer. He sits down to observe the Universe through a telescope. He sees flashes of light from supernovae and colliding galaxies.
Now imagine another life form studying molecular physics. Look at an item. He sees a nucleus and x number of electrons flying around it. He breaks it and gets his flash of light and subparticle trails. His friend is an astronomer and sees supernovae and galaxies collide.
You have the photo? What if we exist on one of those particles? What if our Universe is actually a sea of elements and particles that just fly around and the particles are being selected and smashed (supernova) to see what comes out for some other being? What if the same thing is happening in your Universe? Also, what if the life forms studying its particles are doing the same thing and so on?
Here is the correlation. We live on planet Earth. We traverse the surface in a disorderly way like electrons orbiting a nucleus. Earth has a moon orbiting it, a nucleus (Earth) and an electron (moon). hydrogen? Now they orbit the Sun. The sun has many things in orbit around it. The solar system orbits in a cluster that orbits the center of the galaxy. The Galaxy, not yet proven but I’m sure it will be, orbits a mass, which also has other galaxies orbiting it. The universe? Well, with the vastness of whatever the Universe is expanding, there are certainly more Universes orbiting something.
Elements are made of neutrons, protons, and electrons, put together in different combinations to form the various elements. These are broken and found to have even smaller parts. Each part of an element (proton, electron, neutron) is made up of smaller parts that orbit central parts. These smaller parts have even smaller parts, and as technology advances, you get smaller and smaller parts out of parts.
What if every time we crush a particle we are actually extinguishing a star or a galaxy in an invisible universe? What if we are extinguishing billions and trillions of lives? What if the same thing is happening in our Universe today? What if the supernovae we see are actually other life breaking apart particles to see what they’re made of?
We are making a super collider to create a miniature “big bang.” For us the universe that is created at that moment will exist for an infinitesimal time. Remember that time is relative. What if that is enough for the beings in that universe to develop and create wonderful music, art and books? Long enough for you to venture to the far reaches of your space and explore the stars of your universe and meet other life forms that live there? So everything is destroyed because of what we’re doing? What if the same thing is happening to our universe as we speak? What if our universe was created the same way? Being after studying particles to see what they are made of. Each successive one is creating and destroying a universe every time it breaks a particle.
Our existence is infinitesimal compared to the age of the Earth, the solar system and the Universe. Time, of course, beating everyone. Does everything that has ever existed exist in our Universe or are there lots and lots of universes that exist inside each other and each universe contains an infinite number of universes? Are we just a part of a tiny particle that exists at the end of an eraser in someone’s pencil?