CHAPTER 1 SPACE AND CLOSED SYSTEMS

What you are now going to read might shock you, you might reject it and think I need to see the doctors waiting for me with a white jacket in their hands, or you might seriously consider this “tough-to-digest” idea that I’m going to present you with.  Also, please forgive me if I’m making many scientific mistakes or leave out important details, but the logic is what matters anyway. In this chapter, I will tell you why I believe that the universe might be as small as an atom and we, the human being, as big as an universe. Or why there are several universes, not only ours. Let your fantasy flow and you will discover many new worlds for yourself. :)

For basic introduction, let’s take a moment and reflect upon organisms and related to that closed systems. Isn’t almost everything really a closed system in itself? And is this closed system not connected to another system as well in one way or the other? One system might be contained in another system, for example like our earth in our solar system, or exist in-/dependently next to each it other, for example like a human being and a plant. 

So which other closed systems are there? The smallest system I currently know of is the atom. Inside the atom there are so called protons and neutrons, but the names don't really matter. The next higher level is maybe a cell with a cell nucleus, membrane that serves as a wall and so on. Next comes f. e. an organ of the human being, which is made up of many cells along with other things. That organ could be the human skin, but it could also be the leaves of a tree. Then we have the human being and then planet earth following our solar system, the milky way and finally universe as we know it. Well, isn’t maybe everything somehow interconnected and needs the lower level in order to survive? Maybe even the higher level? Like we human beings need the earth in order to survive, or the earth needs the sun or the universe. Now, let’s think of everything as a living thing and give it a brief hierarchical order (probably making many scientific mistakes even though I was good in biology): The atom nucleus, the atom, the cell, the organ, the human being, planet earth, the solar system, the milky way and the universe. Well, here is easy math: There are so many different atoms, different cells, different organs, different human beings/animals/plants (flora and fauna), different planets, different solar systems and different galaxies. These are facts that we human beings are sure of, at least with the latest state-of-the-art technology, but let’s not forget the limitations of the human being. 

Why the hell shouldn’t there also co-exist many different universes? Furthermore, why shouldn’t our universe be contained in something bigger which we can’t imagine (for now)? Why should that “something bigger” not be contained in something still much bigger than that? Does the cell know that it is contained in the human body? Does it know of its special function inside of the human body? Does it see the human body? Can it see beyond its walls, our human skin? Like Christopher Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan when they tried to ship around the world, they were still not sure if they were going to fall down once they crossed the earthly borders. But in reality they surrounded earth and well they didn’t fall unless they were too drunk and sailed against some cliffs. Later in history, we invented space ships and suddenly could cross our planet’s magical border. We found out that there is a solar system, the milky way and the universe. Before, we were so ignorant to believe that our earth is the center and the sun and other planets are revolving around us. If you thought otherwise only a few centuries ago, well, welcome inquisition. We were all called witches, magicians or crazy philosophers, and we all got killed. As always, we human beings love to put us in the center of everything, we want to be the kings of the universe, our egoism and our greed can’t accept the fact that we are dependant and that we are relatively weak. 

Well, just because we don’t have the technology for now to get out of our universe or even see that there is something beyond that, it would be egoistic, arrogant and narrow-minded of us again to make the same mistake like in medieval times and believe that there really isn’t something bigger than the universe. A living cell can also wander in our body but can it flee the body by itself? Can it see that there is a whole other world out there? So, almost with certainty we can say that there is something bigger, or at least a scientist would say that we aren’t able to prove the opposite. But what about smaller things? When it can go up in size, then it could also go down in size, couldn’t it? So is the atom the smallest closed system there is or does the nucleus within that atom contain many more sytems, i.e. is an entire universe for itself? Just because our technology, f.e. microscopes and dissociative methods are not that developed, why should there not be something smaller than the nucleus as well? In fact, why shouldn’t there be millions of smaller systems inside the nucleus and millions of bigger systems beyond the universe as well? When the human cell gets out off mother human’s universe and hasn’t invented its own space shuttle yet, it will die like we human beings would do out there in universe without our own space uniforms. Let’s not get confused by our human ignorance and parochialism and think that there is only our universe and that we are the only living beings with a reasonable mind out there. It’s all relative. Everything is a living being by its own definition, even the universe lives. It is proven that the universe is expanding, it is “growing” like we human beings do, too. 

But maybe there is an end to all. Maybe after a millions of closed systems in closed systems there is an end to this ad infinitum absurdum. Maybe that end is god. But you could also give it another name. That is for you to decide.