Friday, January 4, 2008

Who and what are we?

I am not trying to scare anyone, but have thought a great deal about this and thought about penning down my thoughts on my blog, where I haven't written even since I created it. Try and visualize what I am trying to put forth out here.

Everyone reading this blog, I am sure must be familiar with the structures of atoms. They consist of a central nucleus and electrons revolving around it. This is as far as we know. now, every matter is made up of billions and billions of these atoms. A single atom is only one fraction of a part that contributes to the matter. Even if it was not there, it would have made no difference, cause the other atoms are still there.

Now before we start imagining, set free your conception of sizes. This is very necessary to understand this crazy concept of mine. Start traveling outwards from your country, continent and the Earth, as if you were traveling in some space ship at an enormous speed. As we travel outwards, we encounter the earth as a round mass orbiting the Sun. Many other planets orbiting the Sun in a similar fashion. Now, if you have departed from the importance of sizes, you will realize that all the planets will almost be of the same size from a distance far away from the solar system. As you continue the journey outwards, you will encounter the other systems just like our solar system, all performing their duties of planets revolving around their respective Sun's.

Now imagine one solar system as an atom. Many 'atoms' now making a galaxy, and many galaxies which now make our universe (as far as we know it). Is it the Universe or is it simply another matter having a size enormous for us to imagine? Suddenly you feel very small. So small that the solar system would fee insignificant, leave alone people varying in heights and sizes in the different continents of the Earth.

Now continuing ahead with this imagination, we can consider, or rather safely assume that atoms and electrons that we talk about are simply smaller versions of the "life" that we ourselves live. Just because we cant magnify to see them, doesn't mean that they don't exist. They exist just like we do, and they are as known to us just like we are known to the part of the bigger world that we are.

So what we simply have is the same systems, working in a concentric manner, one inside the other, one inside the other to an extent so small or an extent so large that our so called 'developed brains' would just simply fail to exist in front of this being. Are we still humans, having an ability to think and perform things as we believe we can, or are we simply point consciousness's trapped in a play of time and form?

This is precisely when we would realize that we are way too small to create a difference in this entity so large that we don't even qualify as a mere dot. We have as much importance in this whole process as an ant has in our lives. (Aren't there creatures smaller than the ant?)

The thinking can go on and on, just like the different worlds that co-exist one inside the other. That brings up another question. Are we really thinking, or are we just a thought process of some other bigger world?