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As soon as we explore bigness and smallness, the universe becomes interactive at both extremes. Time bends. It curves back upon itself and takes on a shape. Time also becomes less and less relevant. Also, at both extremes of bigness and smallness, the conscious holographic nature of everything emerges.
At the small end of things – the subatomic level, matter becomes self-organizing and conciously interactive. At the big end of things are the patterns by wich galaxies self-organize and give birth to other galaxies. These interactins are reflected back upon us. The patterns that emerge from bigness, reflect back similar patterns to those that occur at the extremes of smallness. Everything indicates that this universe is dynamic, holographic and multidimensional.
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First, where are we in relationship to space and time? Are we really “in between”? The answer is: Yes, we are really “in between”. When we look at the age and size of everything, or even look at time, we are “in the middle” of space and time.
BIGNESS AND SMALLNESS
In order to recognize our “in between” position, let us assume that the human body represents a unit of “one” in the size of things. If the smallest measure we can detect or theoretically justify is a “plank” length (10 to the minus 40) and the largest size we can detect is the size of the visible universe (10 to the plus 40, more or less), then humans are in the middle. There is about as much “bigness” out there in space as there is “smallness” in inner space as we measure into smallness. We are almost exactly in the middle of the space continuum as far as size of everything is concerned. In other words, we are in the middle of space size.
TIME – THE AGE OF THINGS
We are also somewhere in the middle of the age of things. If we take one human life as a measure of time, and a human life is, for example, one hundred years old, the life of a human is equal to 10 to the 10th seconds. The shortest measure of time concievable is called “Planck time” (10 to the minus 43 of a second). The longest duration of time is the age of the universe; that is, about 10 to the 43rd hundred years. Notice, we are, more or less, in the middle of the age of things – both in spacee and time.
As time passes, the age of the galaxy is estimated to be about 15 billion years old. The beginning of things, if there was ever a beginning, is estimated to be another 10 billion or so years older. On the other extreme, most particles in the universe are very short-lived. As strange as it may seem, if you live to be 100 years old, you are older than about 50% of the rest of the particles of matter in the universe. Half the particles in the universe pass in and out of our spacetime very quickly. They have a very short life and a very early death compared to you and me.
So we are older than half the universe and younger than half the universe. We are in the middle of age. A very interesting position, dont´t you think?
This universe, as we measure it, is in constant birth and death process. Most matter in this universe comes into existence and then vanishes before we could see it with the naked eye. This “in and out” process of manifestation is so universal that much of the universe is emerging and dissapearing within time frames of less than one second. While you and I experience the world of matter as stable from our “in between” position in the universe, reality is anything but stable. We live in a dynamic universe where everything is in constant motion and nothing is really stable.
Even the cells of our body are constantly renewing themselves. They transform almost completely about every eigth days. Still, we humans look the same. We think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, and we can remember things from the past. How then do we retain our identity?
FRAGMENT OF VERNON WOOLF´S BOOK "THE DANCE OF LIFE"
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