Quote Originally Posted by dutchboy79
Has anyone else ever thought that we - the entire universe - are nothing more than a speck of dust to something much larger? Have you ever been sitting in your house and the sun shines through your window at such an angle that illuminates all of the dust particles? Maybe this universe is nothing more than a dust particle. Just as some things are microscopic to us, why is it not possible that we are microscopic in scale to something else?

This is just something that crosses my mind sometimes. I'm new to this board and I thought I would share.
Ive thought about it several times... and, while i think its perfectly possible, i also think we will never actually know for sure if its so... the same way as the millions of bacteria that live on the specks of dust cant possibly know that their "world" is only a speck of dust floating in the air (of a planet, that is also only a speck of cosmic dust floating in the universe, that can actually be a speck of dust floating in something else...)
The universe can be a fractal... in fact, much of it IS actually a fractal, with worlds inside worlds... so where this things inside things inside things end? If they actually end... :stoned: