When I was a kid I imagined that our universe and every galaxy in it make up a single atom in another, much larger universe.
That much larger universe, in turn, is also a single atom in a much larger universe. And so on…
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baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
my personal headcanon is that the universe is a giant living being and we are its fundamental particles or some other infeasibly tiny thing
jimerson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
mattyroses@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Dark Tower did the same bit as well
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 3 weeks ago
And Men in Black.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Thank you! I used this weird thought to wipe my brain from other weird thoughts, it needed that.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I have had thoughts like that before! Especially since at school the atomic model that was taught looked like a little galaxy (which I now know is inaccurate) and it seemed like going smaller or going bigger just repeated similiar patterns, so to say.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“As above, so below” is a pattern that’s almost universally recognized for a reason. The galaxy atom model may not be accurate, but lots of things in the world rhyme at different scales.