Feb 08, 2007 21:36
Our planet is so incredibly insignificant compared to the endless depths of the universe, a vast curtain of pure darkness shrouded over the empty space that lies ahead of us, beyond any of our perception, beyond any of our touch. It is predicted that at one point in space there is absolutely nothing but darkness until the end of any measurable distance, beyond any stretch of our imaginations or even our realistic vision. But lately i've been taking a different perception on things. When you throw something under a microscope there comes a hypothetical point where there is nothing but darkness between the atoms that make up even the smallest things that slip our eyes.
As i was pondering this,earlier today it dawned on me that maybe, just possibly, our earth is simply an atom, a building block of a substance that adds a small, barely significant part to a world quite like our own. Possibly our planet could be a particle building a leaf, the endless depths of space and everything so many more times bigger than we happen to be combining in perfect harmony with the pigments and chemical combinations to produce a natural, living thing. Deep inside the leaves we step on, the dust we brush away, could possibly be universes within themselves, creating yet another particle to be whizzing about in "space" that creates a perpetual cycle of life, creating the world that we ourselves live on. The earth and its moon and all the other planets (including Pluto ) could simply be orbitting atoms that make up tiny molecules that combine with the other galaxies in space to produce something that appears so incredibly small and insignificant to other living organisms in the world our universe creates.
Is there life beyond our planet?
In my eyes, we could possibly be making up that lifeform, somewhere in a world composed of an infinite number of universes (universi? i dont know), slowly building an even more complex planet out of the galaxies that lie as paricles making up the metals and woods that being may be using to create the technology that has become necesarry for us to survive.
I know this sounds crazy, but most everything i've posted in the past couple days is a bit out there. But if you could unlock this particular door in my head, you'll realize that everytime you sweep away a leaf or burn a piece of paper, or cut down a tree, you could possibly be destroying a universe simply as vast as the one we live in. The endless depths of space have to end somewhere, and the limits are where another substance is created. Whether that will be a physical substance or the substance of one's mind, i don't know.
And after we pass out of this particular world, how will we be reborn if this happens to be the case? Will we be a particle in the same world, the same universe? Will i be reborn and burn as the nucleus of this particular atom, the sun? Or will i just be split like the atoms we could possibly be and explode?
Insane, i'm aware, but maybe this is why it is my natural instinct to live in the natural world with the least amount of disturbances as possible. Life is a beautiful thing, because it never ends. Physically it ends, but when it comes to the combination of possibilities and the wonders of genetics, the fact that we will always exist in some way shape or form, that will never die.