Could our Universe be but a tiny atom in someone else's reality?

Question

What if our perception of reality and time is really only our own interpretation at our scale and we are really but a small short lived atom in someone else's Universe and reality and that we may one day just pop and not exist anymore.

I mean how do we know, we can't see beyond the boundaries of our own Universe? What is huge and unexplainable to us might be infinitely tiny and unnoticed in a parallel World or Universe.

Does quantum theory ever deal with this issue?

I find it fascinating and exciting to think of the possibilities!

Answer 1

Your right, we really don't know. And according to our current understanding of how the universe works (laws of physics) we will never be able to know for sure. Such ideas are untestable.
Some candidates for the theory of everything incorporate similar ideas into their theoretical framework to account for certain unexplainable phenomena (such as the weakness of gravity).But, quantum mechanics itself doesn't make any such predictions.

"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge"
-- Albert Einstein

Answer 2

Another universe should totally be seperate from our universe, because otherwise both would be parts that make up the same universe, like atoms and stellar bodies, etc.

There may be infinite number of universes, and it would be impossible for us to count, because everything that makes up one universe may be completely unexistant in another. For example, one of them may lack the concept "infinite", but on the other universe everything is infinite?! Time may not be applicable in all universes for instance, having something totally different instead :P

Answer 3

The string concept tries to respond to what happens on the smallest scale available so we will not get a image of what this feels like all time quickly. So maybe once you get right down to that time it ought to appear as if an entire new universe equivalent to ours. What i think of is cool is this communicate approximately our universe no longer being on my own. quite there is multiverses quite. whilst the vast Bang got here approximately no longer basically did our universe style yet many others did too; all with their very own rules so a techniques as gravity and different issues. This additionally ties in with the sring concept too.

Answer 4

Well what if I told you there was a flying spaghetti monster: Would you believe it simply because it can't be disproven?

By the way, if you think "exististence" means what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'existence' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

What if a "tiny atom" what if I said a tiny atom is more complex than what you think of as the complexity of our universe?

All your questions can be answered by watching south-park, the matrix, mythbusters, and walker.

Answer 5

No. I think that if it was, then it may not be a atom, it must be some other kind of cluster. Atoms are undivisable, as it was meant to mean, however, we know that there are subparticles that make up atoms, and the universe if me, must be a cluster as it is not atomic.

Answer 6

I think the author you want is Voltaire. The title is definitely Micromegas. As to your question, Most Definitely.

Answer 7

You know, when you start talking like that you kinda zone out and forget where you are. I think the guy next to you would like his turn on the bong :-)

Answer 8

I see no reason why not. ~
Infinite regression in both directions'

Answer 9

omg!
i think about that type of stuff all the time!