Are we just a drop in space?

Question

I was reading an article by someone from New Scientist the other day and he suggested that; well if I can remember rightly; that when things are compressed to as much as they can be, very tightly, then they expand. So this is what the universe could have been. Now this experiment could be done by us on a small scale but not yet as we do not have the capability, but it is not impossible. Imagine if we put together all the minerals, gases etc that make up our universe and pact it tightly on a smaller scale, we could literally create a mini universe.

Now this is the exciting part that has had me thinking for days! Imagine if somewhere, they did do this, they had the capability to do the experiment. What if we are the experiment. What if there are literally billions of these experiments somewhere. I find it very interesting, but if the person who did the experiment was huge, could he just end our universe by emptying us down his sink!?

Anyone have any comments or further thoughts?

Hero: Oh yeah forgot to put my usual tagline of atheist through and through, so no God **** please. Unless God is that huge scientist up there doing the experiment lol.

Answer 1

This theory, in a similar form, has been around for many years.

Because the universe resembles the structure of a subatomic particle there is a theory that our universe is in fact a subatomic particle in another universe which in itself may be a subatomic particle in another universe ............. and so on and so on.

At school I knew it as the breadboard theory; we are an atom in a breadboard in some other universe.

And you're right the whole concept is very exciting but the very fact that we haven't been flushed down the sink makes me think there is no substance to it.......... whoa...what's that gurgling noise??

Answer 2

it all depends on your perspective. Given that the majority of modern astrophysics is largely sound theory built on sound theory. you could belive this.

I would take New Scientist with a pinch of salt. It tries to sensationalise a lot, and while it does have a broad reporting ethos some of it is slightly bias.

For example the borderline between string theory genius and crackpot is all in a point of view.

But in regards to this, its essentially a thought experiment. The beauty of this end of physics is it allows for divergent thinking on a huge range of things which of course includes the why are we here question.

To quote Sluttybaarrtfast: hang the sense of it and just get on with it.

its a nice idea but cant really be prooved or disprooved, so either New Scientist has just furthered a Terry pratchett style religion that in fact the universe does not exist as we understand it but instead flies through space (or something akin) on the back of a giant space turtle that we cant see which is in fact part of a migrating group of pan-dimensional space turtles giving rise to our peception of the universe as we know it.

Not very probable, but completely un-proovable.

New Scientist loves its theory, not knocking the magazine as it does good things, but just that this kinda thing comes up too often and i think you get a little jaded towards titles such as WHY ARE WE HERE?!?!?!? - new theory.

But even from a conventional scientific point, Earth, You , Me and evryone on around and above this planet is basically sodding lucky to be alive and in terms of where we sit in relation to our next nearest extra-solar neighbours we are less than a drop.!!!

Answer 3

If a person had this kind of capability, most people would consider that person to be God. This brings up another good question. Is God God because he/she has impressive powers? This would make someone from a really advanced civilization qualify as God.

The real question though is, when we go down the sink, will we rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise?

Answer 4

check out www.thehiddenrecords.com -you will be intrigued by this.Apparently the Sphinx in Egypt was built to represent the constellation of stars known as the age of leo- thats why the sphinx is like a Lion, it also alleges that there are millions of planets and they've been hidden from us and that there is a face on Mars suggesting life existed on mars- check out the sight!

Answer 5

Do you believe in God? Would you rather go by that and think that at anymoment we could be misplaced by a mastermind, or that people out there are watching us through a microscope. OR would it be eaiser to sleep knowing that an all-knowing being created us and wishes to help us get through?

Answer 6

A engineered design on a planet with some Tinker toys, like Fish and Animals and trees..

Answer 7

Too tired to write a profound response but I will be thinking of that in bed to night. Existence is a bizarre thing.

Answer 8

you think who did this experiment is huge.... size is only relative to what we see around us... i think we are very, very small compared to other things.

imagine the earth was the size of an atom in the experiment.
considering the size of the universe, its not really such a crazy idea.

Answer 9

Wicked question
Seen the end of Men in black 2?
Where J tells K not to keep the creatures in his locker,
And then he is shown that we are all in someones locker.
Maybe that's your answer

Answer 10

it might it has to simply by fact the temperature required to pop that's decrease than required to smash it so it continuously has to pop simply by fact in the previous getting to the temp required to smash it it has to get to a low temp and the pop temp so then it gets to the destruct temperature.