Molecules are theorized to have similar structure to our solar system. Galaxies look like neurons. What if it's not just time that repeats over and over but space? What if our universe is a single cell in a really big organism?
2007-01-05 06:24:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Your hypothesis is a metaphor.
Molecules are groups of atoms bound through their electrons. The behavior of atoms and molecules is described by quantum mechanics, based on the wave-particle dual nature of tiny particles. At scale beyond the atomic, that paradigm no longer is applicable: humans do not have electron shells and discrete nuclei on a body-sixed scale. Galaxies look very little like neurons, once you understand what the microanatomy of a neuron involves. Repetitive spatial patterns are neither indicative of or sufficient for something being an "organism" (self-constained living thing) or a molecule.
Your musings are the stuff of poetry, not science.
2007-01-05 07:20:56 · answer #1 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that's the case then when I burn a piece of paper, am I destroying countless numbers of universes? I have then committed murder on an unfathomable scale. Where does it end? Do those universes contain their own molecules that contain their own universes?
2007-01-05 14:44:33 · answer #2 · answered by Land Warrior 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never thought of it like that but I guess it could be possible. Kind of like in the childrens' story Horton Hears a Who and the Who's in Whoville are smaller than a dust speck?
2007-01-05 14:33:46 · answer #3 · answered by couchP56 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hehehe. I love the reference to my favorite movie,"Animal House".
I think Donald Sutherland might have been ahead of his time.
Oh,in answer to your question...only when I watch that movie do I think about that.
2007-01-05 15:14:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
our universe could be but a snowflake in a snowglobe that some giant organism plays with.
2007-01-05 14:26:55 · answer #5 · answered by powhound 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. This is not the case. You've been watching Men In Black too much.
2007-01-05 16:18:15 · answer #6 · answered by SS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I've never wondered that and it seems the scientific community hasn't either.
2007-01-05 14:49:36 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep.
2007-01-05 14:31:55 · answer #8 · answered by Steve G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i can't say that i have
2007-01-05 14:26:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋