When we ask about the beginning\u00a0or 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\u00a0the micro cosmos. Modern physics has recently\u00a0tried to overcome this limitation\u00a0of 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\u00a0on the back of a big turtle? Silence.<\/p>\n
But what if?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0missing sock in the morning so much less meaningful and more bearable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When we ask about the beginning\u00a0or 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\u00a0the micro cosmos. Modern physics has recently\u00a0tried to overcome this limitation\u00a0of thinking (starting with the relativity theory and later … Continue reading What if the world doesn’t have an end?<\/span>