Versus
When I was a wee lad, I often pondered the nature of reality and the universe. I wondered if we were just some big (but physically small) science experiment. What if our world and our galaxy and our universe was just something that was cooked up in some lab somewhere? Could these highly advanced scientific custodians observe us or was our planet just too small for them to even notice the life that is teeming on its surface? I, personally, leaned toward the idea of us being observed in some sort of voyeuristic, reality show fashion. If that were the case, there would essentially be a universe in a universe. When does a universe stop becoming a universe and simply becomes a "verse"? I think that this naming conundrum was too mind-blowing for my eleven year old mind, so I referred to both potential "places" as each being a separate universe (though now, I would definitely have to say that they are both, without a doubt, verses.)
How big does a verse have to be? Is it something on a massive scale? Certainly it is on a massive scale to us, because we live in it, but how big is it to the potential outside observer? In my thinking of our verse as being a scientific experiment, it would have to be small enough to be contained in a lab. Could a verse be the size of a grain of sand or a marble (ala Men in Black)? Do other verses exist outside of our own? Do we live in a verse within a verse or is there an adjacent verse across the vast, infinite plane of nothingness that surrounds ours? I don't know the answer, but it's much more fun to think that there are other "universes" outside of our own.
How big does a verse have to be? Is it something on a massive scale? Certainly it is on a massive scale to us, because we live in it, but how big is it to the potential outside observer? In my thinking of our verse as being a scientific experiment, it would have to be small enough to be contained in a lab. Could a verse be the size of a grain of sand or a marble (ala Men in Black)? Do other verses exist outside of our own? Do we live in a verse within a verse or is there an adjacent verse across the vast, infinite plane of nothingness that surrounds ours? I don't know the answer, but it's much more fun to think that there are other "universes" outside of our own.