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Since everyone is mentioning their favorite whacky theories, mine is the one that says within every particle is a whole universe, made up of particles with thei

by brap 4y ago

Since everyone is mentioning their favorite whacky theories, mine is the one that says within every particle is a whole universe, made up of particles with their own universes and so on, and what we call our universe is really just a particle in an even bigger universe. And what if all of those universes were actually the same universe, like some infinite recursion? Is there a name for this?

someotherperson 4y ago
Men in Black marble hypothesis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKnpPCQyUec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKnpPCQyUec
- brap 4y ago
  I also vaguely recall something from The Simpsons… Edit: ha, found it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvlJ9XMd94 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvlJ9XMd94
  - karmelapple 4y ago
    Which itself is based off the intro the film Contact: https://youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA https://youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA
    - kepano 4y ago
      Which is inspired by the Powers of Ten 1977 short: https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0 https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0
      - actionfromafar 4y ago
        In the 1954 book Horton Hears a Who its entire universe is inside a speck of dust.
thinkmcfly 4y ago
I dunno, I felt like this was a huge cop out in the movie Men in Black
ckw 4y ago
Animal House: https://youtu.be/JUOGxePBs50 https://youtu.be/JUOGxePBs50 Pascal: […] But to show him another prodigy equally astonishing, let him examine the most delicate things he knows. Let a mite be given him, with its minute body and parts incomparably more minute, limbs with their joints, veins in the limbs, blood in the veins, humours in the blood, drops in the humours, vapours in the drops. Dividing these last things again, let him exhaust his powers of conception, and let the last object at which he can arrive be now that of our discourse. Perhaps he will think that here is the smallest point in nature. I will let him see therein a new abyss. I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all that he can conceive of nature's immensity in the womb of this abridged atom. Let him see therein an infinity of universes, each of which has its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world; in each earth animals, and in the last mites, in which he will find again all that the first had, finding still in these others the same thing without end and without cessation. Let him lose himself in wonders as amazing in their littleness as the others in their vastness. For who will not be astounded at the fact that our body, which a little while ago was imperceptible in the universe, itself imperceptible in the bosom of the whole, is now a colossus, a world, or rather a whole, in respect of the nothingness which we cannot reach? He who regards himself in this light will be afraid of himself, and observing himself sustained in the body given him by nature between those two abysses of the Infinite and Nothing, will tremble at the sight of these marvels; and I think that, as his curiosity changes into admiration, he will be more disposed to contemplate them in silence than to examine them with presumption. For in fact what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything. Since he is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret, he is equally incapable of seeing the Nothing from which he was made, and the Infinite in which he is swallowed up.

by brap 4y ago

someotherperson 4y ago

Men in Black marble hypothesis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKnpPCQyUec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKnpPCQyUec

brap 4y ago
I also vaguely recall something from The Simpsons… Edit: ha, found it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvlJ9XMd94 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvlJ9XMd94
- karmelapple 4y ago
  Which itself is based off the intro the film Contact: https://youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA https://youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA
  - kepano 4y ago
    Which is inspired by the Powers of Ten 1977 short: https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0 https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0
    - actionfromafar 4y ago
      In the 1954 book Horton Hears a Who its entire universe is inside a speck of dust.

thinkmcfly 4y ago

I dunno, I felt like this was a huge cop out in the movie Men in Black

ckw 4y ago

Animal House: https://youtu.be/JUOGxePBs50 https://youtu.be/JUOGxePBs50 Pascal: […] But to show him another prodigy equally astonishing, let him examine the most delicate things he knows. Let a mite be given him, with its minute body and parts incomparably more minute, limbs with their joints, veins in the limbs, blood in the veins, humours in the blood, drops in the humours, vapours in the drops. Dividing these last things again, let him exhaust his powers of conception, and let the last object at which he can arrive be now that of our discourse. Perhaps he will think that here is the smallest point in nature. I will let him see therein a new abyss. I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all that he can conceive of nature's immensity in the womb of this abridged atom. Let him see therein an infinity of universes, each of which has its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world; in each earth animals, and in the last mites, in which he will find again all that the first had, finding still in these others the same thing without end and without cessation. Let him lose himself in wonders as amazing in their littleness as the others in their vastness. For who will not be astounded at the fact that our body, which a little while ago was imperceptible in the universe, itself imperceptible in the bosom of the whole, is now a colossus, a world, or rather a whole, in respect of the nothingness which we cannot reach? He who regards himself in this light will be afraid of himself, and observing himself sustained in the body given him by nature between those two abysses of the Infinite and Nothing, will tremble at the sight of these marvels; and I think that, as his curiosity changes into admiration, he will be more disposed to contemplate them in silence than to examine them with presumption. For in fact what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything. Since he is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret, he is equally incapable of seeing the Nothing from which he was made, and the Infinite in which he is swallowed up.