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by ilamparithi 3732 days ago
I read somewhere that there is a universe in each scale. For example, there is a whole world in the atomic scale. Similarly there are billions of bacteria in our mouth alone. They couldn't make sense of their host. Sometimes I think it is possible that the entire universe is some body part of a giant organism which we couldn't comprehend.
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Whenever I hear something similar I think of this Simpson's opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OiRk56pNEk
Given the fractal nature of the Universe (almost everything in nature is a fractal at some scale), then it's quite possible.

Every particle contains the whole Universe and the Universe contains all particles.

But there's an interesting property of fractals (please correct me if I'm wrong) - at every level, a fractal is self-similar but not an exact copy of itself.

If we connect the two ideas, then every particle contains a similar but not identical Universe - a "parallel Universe"..

So then every particle is a gateway towards a parallel Universe in which there might be parallel versions of us, but slightly different. And every Universe contains every other parallel Universe inside itself.

Mind bending indeed.