The theory of atomization as I see it is based on the smallest element/particle on and around our world/universe, seeing man as the ultimate creation. Well, it is…….to us. But what can we see if we look beyond and within ourselves.
WHO ARE WE THAT WE THINK WE ARE
Why must we be more than the beings we see before us? What makes it possible for us to think that we are special? Why must we alone be God’s creatures? Could there be a clue to our worth here? Can we imagine God on a scale suggested here?
The beings that I see and call human beings are much less than the hype we give ourselves in feeling superior to everything under ‘our’ sun. Children of any god that I want to be considered with is a good god, one who has taught his children how to survive together, grow together, live together, sharing instead of taking. My god will smile at the loving children he has created. I can’t say that now, can you?
The theory of atomism presented here, up to and including the 7,000 year cycle and ‘big crunch’, with us at the top is an interesting theory. It still leaves us, however, as being possibly more than we are, and it suggests more to the atom than ever. It also leaves the possibility of our being less than we are.
If we take The Theory of Atomism a few steps further, we can surmise, within the same topic, the idea and suggestion that there is much more to the theory than some can possibly contemplate.
If we take a being, and the same is true for the structure of the human being, and as such, start from the surface of the being, and go inward and microscopic, or yet without and go outward and macrocosmic.
Let’s call this being ‘X’. ‘X’ is a being who is contemplating the universe as he sees it. He is looking into smaller and smaller parts of himself, comparing it to the universe at large. Now ‘X’ begins to look within the smaller parts of himself and looks at the microbes, the germs, what he sees as the elements of life itself. Should he go even smaller yet, he may see the virus as an integral part of his system.
Now, let us look at his ‘system’. At the atomic level, he may see protons, neutrons, electrons. Now, should’X’ take this as his microscopic start point, what does he see? He begins to see an accumulation of particles gathered into groups by magnetic attraction as galaxies. Each one has a system of particles which we can call solar systems.
He has arrived at a sub-atomic area now. We can see beyond or into these solar systems as well as galaxies, and begin to see individual parts of the system, noting that there are many types of parts, each with individual characteristics.
This is exciting. He begins to dig even deeper. There are strange groupings of particles. There are many types of particles here. It is like looking at the universe as a whole.
What does ‘X’ do now? He has discovered that there is life on the germs and virus’ of his body.
‘X’ cannot resist the mystery. He goes still deeper and smaller. What he once saw as that point from which life rises,the atoms of his structure, has fallen apart. It is not the beginning after all. He is now seeing an astonishing reality. On each of these particles that he discovers, there are growing masses, some singular, many made of complicated parts.
What can they be? ‘X’ is excited. He begins to search these complicated parts. What can it all mean? If they are indeed beginnings of germs, of disease, then that should be it, but it isn’t.
One could say that ‘X’ suddenly becomes aware of more than himself. He is in the presence of an entire universe. It is himself. The microbes and other such particles are being seen with their own characteristics. They move independently.
A truth that is beyond comprehension begins to shout out from his exploration. He is a universe. There are universes within him. There are galaxies within these universes. How many? Unimaginable as well. The truth begins to come out. ‘X’ is speechless. He does not have a faith anymore, in anything, except one thing. There is a much greater and smaller being than himself.
As ‘X’ looks within himself and begins exploring the basis for his being, he suddenly became aware of still smaller particles and beings. What to do? Should he expound on his theory? Should he give it to the world? Should he be silent and continue the search? He began to imagine how his theory might be seen to the masses, and in particular, to those masses controlled and lead by unseeing and blind leaders. He knew that they would say he blasphemed. There is nothing beyond himself but God.
What a shock to fragile egos, to find that he is merely a speck of a speck, being carried within the body of a being so huge that our minds could not contemplate it. To see that being as a speck of a speck of a still larger being, possibly onward beyond even the wildest imaginings. Still yet a system unimaginably smaller. In that he might still feel superior.
‘X’ realizes at last that there could be a being which is greater than himself .
He tried to fathom it all. He is sure now that he cannot even imagine the total of particles, layers of particles, and indeed layers of beings. ‘X’ now knew that he could not act haphazardly towards his own body anymore. To do so would be unconscionable. How many universes known and unknown depend on it for their life and the life on them?
The truth that there are smaller universes than his own and that he may be the power that creates or destroys worlds, is unsettling to say the least. He could see and imagine a position of god, creator and destroyer of worlds. That is, if he chooses to see that way, narrow as it still is. ‘X’ is silent. He suddenly realizes that he may be that subatomic particle of a particle in some other creature. How does one feel so smug when he finds out that he is more than he thought but less than he is. That is an interesting conundrum.
There! Now the sci-fi writers may advance in confidence that they will never run out of subject matter, how rather it has increased his potential and scope beyond all limits we might know as ‘the rule’.
Is this so strange a thought process. How long ago was it that the atom was the smallest particle, or the germ, or the ant. Can one imagine how far this could conceivably go. Could it be that there truly is no beginning or end for life as we know it.
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