fascination

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

Science:

NOVA News Minutes
The Real Matrix
(running time 01:44)


Transcript

October 31, 2003

NARRATOR: The idea of parallel universes has long been a staple of science fiction. But some of the physicists who believe in string theory think it could be science fact. As shown on PBS's NOVA, string theory proposes that everything in the universe is made up of unimaginably tiny vibrating strings. Because these strings need to move in more than the three dimensions we experience, some scientists think that up to 11 dimensions might exist.
NARRATOR: Some physicists believe these strings can stretch into something called a membrane, or "brane" for short. A brane could be as large as an entire universe, and our whole universe could exist on a brane inside a much larger space. In other words, our universe might be a mere slice of bread in a much larger "loaf," and that loaf might contain other slices, or parallel universes, right next to ours, that we can't see or touch. But because string theory suggests that gravity is leaking into the different dimensions, we might someday be able to detect the presence of these other universes by studying gravity.
[from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/minu-trans2.html]


Esoteric

"As above, so below"
This phrase comes from the beginning of The Emerald Tablet and embraces the entire system of traditional and modern magic which was inscribed upon the tablet in cryptic wording by Hermes Trismegistus. The significance of this phrase is that it is believed to hold the key to all mysteries. All systems of magic are claimed to function by this formula. "'That which is above is the same as that which is below'...Macrocosmos is the same as microcosmos. The universe is the same as God, God is the same as man, man is the same as the cell, the cell is the same as the atom, the atom is the same as...and so on, ad infinitum."
Sources: 29, 45, 66.
[from: http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/below_above.html]

As I was watching pbs the other day and saw this particular NOVA episode and it made me think, is it possible that instead of a slice of bread that its a slice or cross-section of something within an actual being? A being that some consider "God"?

According to the book I am reading there are worlds within worlds. An idea that has been illustrated in a children's movie - Osmosis Jones- a world within a human's body. Perhaps our universe is actually a world within a being's body?