Possible or not?

Question

We are all constructed and so is everything around us from atoms, molecules, electrons etc all spinning around a neucleus.
Imagine our solar system as an atom, with the sun as a neucleus with the planets being the neutrons spinning round it.
We know there are other solar systems out there.
Why can't all these 'solar systems' actually be part of another living being (eg another creature) but on a size totally unimaginable by us people?

Interesting Spook, will have to look that one up.

To the school -
When does time begin and where does it end?
When the measurement of time is taken out of the equation your 13 billion years might only be a micro-second (comparitively) in the matters of an immensely larger scale.

Thanx for the science info loren. Will remember in future.
Always willing to learn.

The unimaginarily large creature could be anything. Dog, cat elephant.
It doesn't have to be alive either, could be a bit of rock, part of a car even a can etc.
If possible try to imagine how many 'solar systems' it would take to construct your computer, and then how big that computer would be.
Open your minds to the possibility.

Answer 1

Although our modern physics would dispute this idea, there are realms in the universe where our laws of physics cease to exist, so nothing is ever actually out of the question. I think if more people thought about things like this, then our world would be a much more interesting place. Keep spreading the good thoughts!

Answer 2

Every stoner in the world has had this conversation " hey man what if the world was just an atom in a big mans toe nail"

whats even more mind blowing is what if everything you see around you is just a construction of your own mind and you are really just an egg like form sat in an infinite void full of other eggs, none of which know their own true form or that others exist. When one realises the existance of others one dissolves into nothingness. As logical as anything else if you ask me :-)

Answer 3

Don't you just love it when, quite possibly under the influence of mind altering substances, someone pitches a question that makes you go,
"Wow. Now that you put it like that I reckon you've got something there."
Immediately, someone with their head firmly up their own butt, posts a nobel prize winning thats-put-paid-to-that-idea answer based on irrefutable knowledge from a degree in astrophysics.
I SAW THIS IN THE OPENING CREDITS OF THE SIMPSONS! i thought it was a cool idea then, I still think its cool now that its posted here. It doesn't need Mr. My-IQ-is-higher-than-yours to get all serious over it.
Where's the humour gone! We all looked at eachother and said ' more to the point, where on the creature is our atom placed!!?? ' It could sneeze and annihilate us all! It could be part of anything, his armpit, assuming it has arms!!
How I long for funny answers, like they were back in the day.

And, yes, I appreciate you may not find this answer funny either.
So, don't bother telling me. It's not necessary.

Answer 4

It's an interesting theory that has been posited by a number of people. The only problem, so far as we know, is that the mechanics of astrophysics (how the solar system works) are quite different from the mechanics of quantum physics (the behavior of subatomic particles). Therefore, this idea is generally dismissed by physicists.

Answer 5

What a great thought! It reminds me of the lovely children's story by Dr Seuss about a tiny dust speck, which was really a world for lots of tiny people. A good way to suggest that we are used to our own concept of size here on Earth, but on other planets things could be much bigger or smaller.

Answer 6

Wow!!
there was a film starring Jodie Foster (i think it was called Contact). The closing scene had the universe as a ball being used by some alien types to play bowls.

Answer 7

Okay. I was just getting over the whole we are a ball spinning in space and no where to go if it falls concept and now you want me to think in terms of being part of something like that!!!!!

Answer 8

THIS THEORY HAS BEEN POSTULATED IN SEVERAL SCIENCE FICTION STORIES I HAVE READ. THE QUESTION THEN IS WHAT DO WE CALL THAT UNIMAGINABLY LARGE CREATURE. WOULD YOU THINK IT COULD BE GOD. P.S. NEUTRONS ARE PART OF THE NUCLEUS OF AN ATOM, THE SUN IN YOUR THEORY. ELECTRONS SPIN AROUND THE NUCLEUS.

Answer 9

The complete true nature of matter is still unknown to us so your question is based on an incorrect assumption, sorry!

Answer 10

Totally possible.
We could all be micro-organisms living inside of some other organism.