(March 15, 2012 at 4:22 pm)Tempus Wrote: "Theory 1 - Regress of Microscopic Universes" - I've thought similar things before. Actually, I thought of something a few days back when I was wondering what the smallest 'bit' of matter was. I had this zany idea that the smallest 'bit' of whatever is also the largest 'bit', in a sort of cyclic fashion. So, looking at the smallest piece of matter is also like looking at the largest bit. Sort of analogous to looking in a mirror when there's another mirror behind you or... a shepard tone. Maybe an Escher drawing is more fitting.
The idea is so damn incoherent I can't even explain it.
You actually did a much better job than I did. Knowing what I know about what we see about this level I've more or less dismissed it, but it keeps nagging away at me. For instance, while we see things popping in and out of existence.. does that mean at that level, its instantaneous, we already know anecdotally that small creatures observe time slower (at least apparantly), so maybe that instant is billions of years inside... god knows, I'm incoherent too, and I recognise how silly the idea may be.
Just fail to shake it.
(March 15, 2012 at 4:26 pm)Stimbo Wrote: There is one I came up with about the nature of time, but it sounds so straitjacketingly silly when I put it into words.
Oh, and regress of universes at the "ultimate" macro or micro level isn't?
(March 15, 2012 at 4:43 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Or taking that to a molecular level, what if our solar system was an atom, part of some giant molecule, with our galaxy and the rest of the universe making up some giant "something" of a much larger universe?
This is far more common than I realised. I'm feeling better already.
(March 15, 2012 at 4:43 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: What if what I know as the color blue was actually what someone else saw as the color red?
Its pretty valid as a philosophical exercise that one.. pesky science keeps trying to ruin the fun thou
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If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
