When we ask about the beginning or the end of the world we many times fall into the trap of using the experiences from our macro world of concrete objects around us and try to project them to the micro cosmos. Modern physics has recently tried to overcome this limitation of thinking (starting with the relativity theory and later with quantum physics). But it reminds me of that old woman in the audience of a physics congress asking the nobel price winners on the panel, what if we all live on the back of a big turtle? Silence.

But what if?

What if the world doesn’t have a beginning, and the quark isn’t the smallest particle but the boundary of a separate universe it carries inside? What if the world is actually recursive with no end? Our world would then end if some researcher of the (n-1)th world is randomly hitting our quark with a high energy accelerator. Ooops.

Obviously these questions don’t have an answer that is accessable to us – at least not anytime soon. But they make searching for that second missing sock in the morning so much less meaningful and more bearable.