Simplification of Physics: Journey thru the universe (small)

One of our greatest gift is our ability to imagine. One of our greatest freedoms is the free will to imagine anything we want. We are free in our imagination to make possible the impossible. So I imagined what it would be like if I could change my size to as small and as big as I wanted in order to explore the quantum world of atoms and the vastness of our universe. I convinced my friend to accompany me.

To get into the mood, we jumped into the ocean, got on our surf boards and rode a wave to some corral reefs.

The first thing we saw were a grouping of eggs floating over corals. There were many corals at all stages of their growth. Some of the larger ones formed small black spherical spores that were ejected, took root, and absorbed from their environment to grow. This was sufficient inspiration to spark our imagination so we started to shrink our size. The spores were made up up clumps of what looked like frog eggs.

As we shrank, the water became denser and thicker and it became milky much like a room filled with dust. The particles became larger and the space between them grew. We shrank our size until the particles were the size of foot balls and were recognizable as water molecules. They were moving very fast bumping into each other and bumping into us. We used our magical powers of imagination to slow down time till the jostling balls moved slow enough so that I could examine them. The balls were transparent, seemed to be filled with smoke and had a very bright colored dot of light in their center. I recognized them as atoms.

There was an atom that looked like it was in 2 different places at the same time. But we soon realized that it was the same atom, moving back and forth so fast that it looked like it was in 2 different places. Moving between the 2 places, it moved so fast that it seemed to disappear from one place and instantaneously reappear at the other place, leaving an almost invisible blur between the two places.

As we shrank to explore the balls closer, I saw that they occasionally sparkled.

We shrank down to investigate this sparkle and found that they were sparks emitted out from the balls. It is as they were emitting puffs of smoke like from a volcano. They sparkled like stars. Shrinking down, I examined the particles of smoke which shined in vibrant colors.. I recognized these particles of light as photons. Some were alone, but many were connected together much like trains of colored wagons, all of different lengths going in a straight line at the same speed, the speed of light, but all in different directions.

The wagons had different colors and were shaped like tuning forks vibrating so fast that they looked smeared and stretched. They looked more like waves than particles. While all the wagons had different height and length, they all had the same volume.

Whenever I touched a vibrating wagon, it stopped vibrating...

until I stopped touching it.

Once I recognized the photons, I was surprised that I was in an ocean of photons mostly coming from all the stars with a drizzle from our sun to keep us warm.

The extremely high and extremely short wagons were very high energy rays called gamma rays. They were so energetic that they tended to go right thru anything they hit.

The extremely low and extremely long wagons were distributed due to their length and thus they were very low energy waves called gravity waves. They were blocked and reflected by anything they hit. Objects were pushed together by gravity waves because they blocked the waves on their sides that were facing each while their unprotected sides facing outwards were pushed together by the greater number of gravity waves pushing the together.

The space around me was filled like I was in a psychedelic laser show. There were so many different trains of photons coming from all the many stars in the sky The taller, shorter wagons were passing by to fast. I had to wait until some very short and very long wagons approached before I dared to hop on.

When I hoped on and touched the wagon it suddenly stopped vibrating and looked like a particle. I was traveling at the speed of light. Despite my physics teachers teaching me that time would stop when I travel at the speed of light, my heart started beating very fast. It felt like time was flying by very fast.

When I jumped off, the wagon began to vibrate again and like a boat on water, it caused waves to propagate out. Those waves I recognized electromagnetic waves of the photons. I jumped on the wave like a surfer and as I shrank more to investigate,

I found my self in an ocean of stiff vibrating foam with a very regular structure. It was as if I was in an ocean of frog eggs, as if they were pixels on a TV screen.

As we shrank smaller and smaller, the pixels got bigger and bigger and the empty space between the pixels got bigger and bigger. I jumped into that emptiness and suddenly I was unable to move. It was as if I was covered deep in heavy snow.

My partner had to push me thru because I was unable to surf. There was nothing to surf on. The smaller I got, the farther I was from the space I left behind. It eventually faded leaving me in total blackness and it made no difference to shrink any smaller.

When I tried to move, there was no space to move in. I found my self lost in nothingness. Fortunately, my friend pulled me back into the vibrating foam where I finally had the space to move again.

Having reached the limit of smallness where everything suddenly disappeared to turn into nothing, we decided to increase our size to explore the vastness of the universe.

We started to increase our size till we were where we started in the ocean with the eggs floating above the corals.

Then we had to change into our space suits.

As we increased our size, we saw the earth shrink to the size of a dust particle and the sun the size of a foot ball. There were so many sparkling atoms inside the sun emitting their train of photons as sparks, that the many sparks emitted by the many twinkling atoms in the sun fused the twinkles into a blazing continuous glow.

We continued to increase our size till the sun shrank to a spot of twinkling light and looked like the other neighboring stars.

As we grew bigger, the stars merged with billions of other stars in a group called the galaxy that looked like a coral.

As we grew bigger, the galaxies shrank to a point of light and merged with billions of other spots of light to form a foam like structure I recognized as my universe.

No matter which way we looked, we could not see any edges.
We increased our size to get a better overall view of all the universes and saw our own reflections. It looked like we were in between 2 parallel mirrors. As we got bigger, we realized that we were in between a mirrored sphere inside a large bubble enclosed by a mirrored surface. It was like we were in a frog egg. We could not penetrate the inside sphere, but found the surface of the opposite mirror like it was a lake of mercury. The deeper we penetrated, the more difficult it was to go deeper.

I soon saw that the universe I managed to come out of was clumped with many other universes. They looked like frog eggs. I observed how one of the universes burst like a soap bubble and disappeared in a cloud of dust. I also observed how one of the eggs started to divide into 2 smaller universes that slowly started to grow. by absorbing the dust shed by a universe that burst.

Like before, my partner had to pushed me out to explore this blackness because I was unable to surf. There was nothing to surf on. It was as if the liquid of space turned into a solid like ice. I was frozen stuck to the outside of the bubble I was pushed out from with the bubble on one side of me, and nothingness on the other side.

As I grew to a million times bigger, the bubble of space I was attached to about an arms length away which seemed to be infinitely large got to be a million times smaller. The bigger I got, the the smaller the bubble appeared until I saw that the bubble was attached to other bubbles to form a collection of bubbles much like seen in frog eggs. As I grew larger, the collection of bubbles grew smaller until it eventually disappeared. Then it made no difference to grow any bigger. When I tried to move, there was no space to move in. I found my self lost in nothingness. Fortunately, my friend pulled me back into the surface of my bubble where I finally had the space to move again.

I remembered when I was lost in nothingness as I was exploring the smallness of reality. While there is an endless number of somethings in the everything of the universe, there is only one nothing. Nothing and its twin called infinity exists only in mathematics and in imaginations.

I then imagined in my imagination that I could use a microscope to study the floating eggs in that murky puddle. I peered and focused deep inside one egg, I focused deeper and deeper until I spotted the sun I came from. With a bit of luck I was able to find and focus on the earth, my home.