Is our universe inside something else?

Question

I've often thought that we are inside something larger. We could very well be the building blocks of a atom in a much larger universe where a billions of years would be only a second. Time is relevant to size and I really think that if you keep cutting something in half when would you have nothing. You'd eventually get so small that you couldn't even see it or detect it but something would be there. I think this is a never ending chain and it really doesn't matter where we fit in because it goes on forever both ways. There are probably even universes inside of our bodies inside the very atoms that makes up our minds. I don't hear much people speculating on this because I think people want to think they are more important than that but I just want the truth which I will never get but I'd like to get some other people's take on this.

Answer 1

yes we seem to be.
I mean we can't see that something, but if we do some math on it and apply string theory then we start to see clear possibilities of OTHER dimensions containing us.

They claim the 11th Dimension contains all other 10ds (including our 4ds (space=1,2,3 time=4))
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4183875433858020781&q=Parallel+Universes&total=1159&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5

(the statement at the end of the flik makes me COMPLETELY believe we could be a bouncy ball toy some alien kid bought out of a quarter machine at his local space station store.)


I personally want to sway towards blackholes compressing mass, time and strings into its forming quatnum states, breaking down all dimensions into a quantum wormhole, spewing the condensed "mass" into a "whitehole"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole
aka a Big Bang in another, separate "universe"

only question I still have is what exactly is the "void" around our universe.....................is there really "NOTHING" out there for infinity?

having a hard time thinking in 11 Dimensions?
http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

Answer 2

There are basically three versions:

1. There is nothing outside our universe; our universe is infinite (this does away with the problem that we have to be inside something). Being infinite, the universe does not have to expand into anything, it simply expands inside itself.

2. There is only one universe. Inside that universe, there are bubbles that suddenly begin expanding. Very rapidly at first (big bang) then more slowly as either a) the energy that triggered the expansion diminishes or b) gravity pulls back onto the matter inside the bubble and slows down the expansion. What we see (back to 14 billion years) is the inside of one bubble (but in 3-D).

3. There is a 9, 10, 11 or 12 dimension universe where, for some reason, 3 dimensions (plus time) suddenly began expanding within it. However, it is possible that the other dimensions into which we are "embedded" are actually still curled up on themselves so that the total universe, in the other dimensions, is very small.

Each version helps understand some things that are observed about the universe. For now, the version that is the "cheapest" in explaing most of the stuff appears to be number 1. Still, there are some annoying things that can be much better explained with number 3. (But that could be simply because we do not understand number 1 sufficiently -- who knows).

As for our universe being an atom in a much bigger universe, that simply adds a layer of complication that does not help in explaining anything else. We are getting a better understanding of what is inside atoms, inside subatomic particles (like quarks) and even hints of how quarks could be made up.

It is very difficult to look up and see the things we'd need to see to imagine ourselves either inside a nucleus, inside a subatomic particle or inside a quark.

For the cutting in half, you don't get to the point where you get nothing. You simply get to the point where you can't cut the remaining thing without changing its identity.

You can cut ice cubes in two until you are left with one atom of water (H2O). If you cut again, you could be left with a hydrogen atom on one side and a hydroxyl radical (OH) on the other. Let us keep the hydrogen atom.

First thing we note is that a hydrogen atom is not ice (nor water). We cut our ice in half repeatedly until we had no more ice, but we did not end up with nothing. We ended up with something else (hydrogen). The usual hydrogen atom is a nucleus of one proton, with one electron around it. We could cut by separating the electron from the proton. Keep the proton.

The proton is actually three quarks held together by gluons. At this point, splitting requires more energy than we have (but we can build bigger accelerators and get there one day).

The point being that you may run out of the thing that you are splitting, but you are left with "something" new.

Answer 3

I remember reading a sci-fi story once, that was based on just that idea.

Basically, a mad professor guy invents a shrinking potion and injects it into his lab-worker. While he's shrinking he's placed onto a block of metal (because there are more atoms in a block of metal and they're closely spaced) and the professor then sits back and waits. The guy that's shrinking has a radio transmitter or some kind of comms. device that also (magically) shrinks with him.

After several hours he's shrunk sufficiently that he's the same size as the atoms in the metal block. As he continues to shrink he realises that the individual atoms are beginning to take on certain 'space-like' properties, i.e. they each seem to contain miriads of galaxies and stars. Shrinking further he realises that the stars are real and he can swish them around with his hands.

Eventually he can make out planets and sets foot on one of them, still shrinking all the time. Hours pass and he finds tiny beings crowding round him; he somehow communicates with them and they watch him as he shrinks still more.

This process continues and he visits many different universes as he shrinks. Eventually in one universe, he spies a planet that looks like Earth and heads for it, where he finds a professor peering into a microscope at a block of metal and listening to a radio device, i.e. the guy had shrunk and come back in a complete circle to the place he had started!

Ok my synopsis sucks, but the story was really gripping at the time I read it. It was about 30 years ago mind ! If you're interested I can try and find the title and author if I've still got the book.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

At this time there is not one single shred of hard, scientific evidence that proves our universe is inside some 'thing' else. Plenty of speculation, as you'll notice from some of the guessing done by other responders to your question. The *ONLY* answer at this time is no one knows..!

Answer 6

its a theory, but its just not very logical. ill admit if there was another universe inside of every atom in my body then id feel kinda weird and not important. but it just seems completely illogical that there is another universe inside every little quark and that our universe is just one of nearly a googol (for those of u that dont know a google is 10^100).

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

You make a fair point. As the saying goes, 'The Universe is not stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we CAN imagine'.
We will never know the truth, one way or the other.

Answer 10

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