the vast amount of space lends credibility to infinite greatness...so can there also be infinite smallness?

Question

what i mean to say is how big is space really and how small can things get..ie atoms

Answer 1

the black hole wud be the smallest but with the greatest attractive power

Answer 2

. So The space is infinite . This is possible because it is nothingalso conceptuously smallness should be infinite. it can not be other wise just because we can not see it . Once the atom was considered to be the samllest unit of elements and subsequently , the components of the atom , like the lectron and the proton , nuetron were considerd to be the sammllest units . later it was found that een the protons and nuetrons were composed of particles like photons etc.just because we are not able go break even the photons and see it they are made of any other particles or whether they are made of any other smaller particles , we can not decide that they are the smallest object and that ther ecould be nothing smaller than them.theoritically there can be particles much smaller than what we know and the smallness should also be infinite. Even our sizes that we know are relative and they may really be much smaller than what they seem to us or what we feel them to be . It may be just like an ant considering a crystal of sugar as a large boulder or a small mountain., the moutains that we consider to be very big might be relatively small like a sugar crystal to something else .So the whole worlduniverse is just an illusion - a maya only in reality.There existence for zillions of years in our reckoning might be few seconds in comparison to the universe .Considering the fact that the mater in the universe is constantly changing , we can safely assume that the universe we are in or we see might have undergone chages millions of times as mater does not at all die or get destroyed but continues to change .They could never have come into existence out of anything and if they have come into existence out of something , that somethikng shopuld have been in existence priror to that and so on endlessly. the age of the universe should be inconsiderable and inconceivable . We can only calculat e the age of the present appearance or the vision that we have of it .

Answer 3

Small and big are different I am afraid.

The reason is not at all an obvious one.

What you are really asking is - can I scale things equally upwards as well as downwards.

Upwards is fine - all the laws of physics we know of keep behaving in much the same way smoothly at larger and larger scales (unless dark energy turns out to be a new large scale phenomenon).

But the same cannot be said going smaller and smaller, because at small sizes the universe is not smooth - its lumpy. This lumpiness is described by quantum mechanics, and it turns out that there are limits to what you can know or say about the universe at very small sizes. However, the size we are talking is well below that of the atom or even the proton.

Answer 4

It seems like a fitting idea that, like there seem to be endless layers of larger and larger formations of matter in space, there should also be smaller and smaller units- molecules, atoms, the different subatomic particles, etc..

I have read that some scientist theorize that quarks have no substructure, which by my thinking would mean they are as small as you can go. Some other wise men think that they could consist of yet smaller particles, though.

Answer 5

There are.

The beauty of smallness is in the deep - the abyss of the ocean. Scientists have found smallest single cell amoeba type of an animal, which was isotoped to identify as several Billions of years old - yes, with 'B' and in plural.

Makes me wonder the greatness of God. He is as vast and as expanse as space and yet he is so small as this animal that was discovered in the depth of oceans. Amazing.

Answer 6

It seems that according to theory, once we get to less than what's called a Planck Length which is1.6 × 10-35 meters, space is a blur and we can distinguish any smaller structure. Here's a short write up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

Answer 7

Space could be infinite for all we know and our universe is expanding. Subatomic particles are smaller than atoms and quarks are smaller than subatomic particles and on and on and on.

Answer 8

quarks and muon and other quantum particles.
God bless,
gabe