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[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

my personal headcanon is that the universe is a giant living being and we are its fundamental particles or some other infeasibly tiny thing

idk what that has to do with light speed and space-time but you can think of that yourself i guess

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I have had thoughts like that before! Especially since at school the atomic model that was taught looked like a little galaxy (which I now know is inaccurate) and it seemed like going smaller or going bigger just repeated similiar patterns, so to say.

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[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

"As above, so below" is a pattern that's almost universally recognized for a reason. The galaxy atom model may not be accurate, but lots of things in the world rhyme at different scales.

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[–] jimerson@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When I was a kid I imagined that our universe and every galaxy in it make up a single atom in another, much larger universe.

That much larger universe, in turn, is also a single atom in a much larger universe. And so on..

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[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Dark Tower did the same bit as well

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[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 point 3 months ago

And Men in Black.

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[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you! I used this weird thought to wipe my brain from other weird thoughts, it needed that.

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