• baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours 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

    idk what that has to do with light speed and space-time but you can think of that yourself i guess

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      5 hours ago

      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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      7 hours 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.

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        6 hours 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.