posted on Nov, 15 2011 @ 01:01 PM
Gee thanks Blocula!
I have been formulating the creation of the mother of all threads in my head this last while, which pertains to this exact concept i.e. the
microscopic theory. Nice!
Good thread nonetheless.
Reminds me of a book I read when I was a kid - it was authored by an Italian scientist whose name I cannot remember (book's title was "The face on
Mars"). Anyhow, he posted the theory that a virus is nothing more than another microscopic civilization's mode of "space travel".
We have to admit that a virus does resemble our lunar landers somewhat:
Anyhow - if we look at the manner in which a typical virus infects a body (i.e. the flu) - there is the contagion phase which then is usually ended by
a fever of some kind. Turnaround time can be anything from 3 days to a 2 weeks for a typical flu virus to run its course. If there is similarity in
the manner in which we as a civilization conduct ourselves, and it is a given that the same patterns of society will govern other life-forms, then it
is safe to assume that the travelling virus is in fact just a microscopic civilization "conquering" another region in their space as we will do
ourselves one day. Therefore, the period that the flu grows within our bodies may be the actual time in which the microscopic civilization blooms and
flourishes, and the fever is the point in time in which they eventually kill themselves off via a nice nuclear war or similar.
The size of the microscopic organisms means that they will experience time differently to us. Three days to us can mean a million years or more of
life to the microscopic civilization.
Thrilling thought! That may mean that we may form part of a larger entity, which in turn can form part of a much larger entity. And so on and so on!
In the same fashion we may be the result of the composition of many microscopic worlds, galaxies, universes and civilizations!
We cannot say for certain how small or large these microscopic units can be until we have greatly improved our own ability to measure these things - a
cell can in fact be an entire galaxy or universe from our perspective, and the regions between cells (or the interstitial spaces) may be what we will
one day perceive as the spaces between universes - the cellular membrane of a single cell with its osmotic function perhaps mirroring a similar
situation at our universe's border?
In the end the whole cycle may just repeat itself in that the greatest entity of them all is at the same time the smallest microscopic entity in
existence - in other words - that the whole wheel-upon-wheel existence is in fact just one iterative circular pattern!
Suffice to say - and with or without the microscopic theory carrying any weight - we still remain really really really small!