An Infinite Sea of Universes
I can’t properly describe what I have seen these past two weeks, mostly because I do not understand it. Even so, the world needs to know, so I will try.
After 4,020 attempts the microscope performs better than I could have imagined. The magnification is strong enough to see past quarks, the smallest known building blocks of life. Until today that is. To test out my creation for the last time I brought out a business card from my wallet and placed it under the microscope. I began with a small magnification, around one angstrom, then slowly increased it, passing an atom, then its protons, neutrons, electrons, alpha particles, beta particles, all the way to quarks. Then I kept going.
Magnifying into emptiness, I shrunk the area of observation at a steady rate for exactly 10 minutes and 29 seconds. This is when I saw a small blip of black contrasting against the white of my microscope light. It popped into my vision for half a second then disappeared. I decreased the magnification and the black speck came back into view. As the lens focused, I noticed the speck was shaped like a sphere. Then I noticed a light coming from inside. Oddly enough, my microscope’s light seemed unable to penetrate the speck’s outer surface. As I zoomed in, the light crystalized into many tiny flecks of light scattered across a pitch-black background.
At this point, I was astounded by the discovery that there was some sort of light conductor at such a small scale. I continued increasing the magnification until I noticed the lights were spinning, painfully slowly, but they were clearly spinning. I zeroed in on one of the light flecks and soon realized that the light was spiral-shaped with 6 tips. As I zoomed closer, the streaks of light making up the arms of the spiral focused into the burning outlines of millions of suns. I was looking at a brilliant galaxy, existing casually inside my wallet.
I explored for a while, but I found landing on a certain spot in the mini-universe at such a large magnification was difficult. When aiming, I had to shift the business card to get my view where I wanted it, but the lightest touch would catapult my view to a completely different spot. This is how I ended up losing the first mini-universe. I attempted, and predictably failed, to zoom back into the same spot as before. The accuracy required to find such a minuscule point made it impossible, but this led to the biggest discovery of all. I didn’t just happen to stumble on a mini-universe at first glance as I had first thought. I realize now that the odds of that at such a small scale are minuscule. No, I was able to find another mini-verse because they are everywhere. I lost one universe to find another, then another, then another, all located in the spaces between the quarks that make up a tiny piece of a business card.
After that I started grabbing different materials; a pencil, a leaf, a strand of my hair, and found more mini-universes in all of them. Discovering a universe in a strand of my hair thrilled me. It means that there are worlds inside me, in my cells and rushing through my veins. This microscope proves that universes exist in the spaces between all matter. Inside everything that has ever existed there is more life than we could ever have imagine.
I warn you now that if you cannot handle what you have read so far, if you are feeling insignificant or are teetering on the edge of a mental breakdown, stop reading. Go research a bit about optimistic nihilism, then maybe make your way back here if you’re feeling better. You will only feel smaller from here.
After two weeks of observation I discovered that, like a snowflake, no two mini-universes are the same. Each has its own set of universal laws that have led to vastly different realities. Some of the differences were subtle. Most were magnificent. I was astounded as I watched a storm of ice meteors caught in a star’s orbit remain frozen as it skimmed the molten surface of the sun, thermal equilibrium seeming to be nonexistent. Meteors raced through the black void, suddenly slowing down or speeding up with no visible interference to cause the speed variations. I watched two planets on a collision course, but as they neared each other they slowed, coming to a complete halt just before crashing, then shooting back out in opposite directions like a pinball. Matter would disintegrate then reform, as if the atoms that made them were falling apart then putting themselves back together. Whole entire planets vanished into dust or gas then reappeared seemingly as solid as before, sometimes faster than I could blink. Stars burned bright then went dark, only to burst suddenly back into flames.
As astounding as this was, most of the differences were far more magnificent. I must admit I cannot explain it. Having learned the rules of this universe so intimately, my mind simply cannot understand what I’ve seen, nonetheless explain it. It’s like growing up knowing that 1+1 equals 2, but in this new universe 1+1 actually equals 23. It’s wrong. It’s so wrong, but right before my eyes it’s the truth. Some universes had no light, but thanks to a completely different form of illumination, it was far from a world of darkness. Some universes had no matter, but there were still tangible somethings. They were just clearly not matter. There were universes without color, but they were also not black and white. Motion was not up or down, right or left, but something else entirely. Temperature was nonexistent, space was twisted, time overlapped.
I realize that most of the above makes absolutely no sense. If that’s the case then I think I’ve made my point. Once I publish this letter of discovery, I am going to release my technology to the public. This is too big a discovery to inhibit with selfish goals. No, the whole world deserves to know, to see this infinite system of universes existing everywhere, in everything.
I’ve been wondering since this discovery, whether there are even smaller universes in between the spaces of the mini-universes. Does everything keep getting smaller and smaller endlessly? Is all that we see and touch and are a universe inside a universe in another universe? Are we in the middle of this sequence, or are we the mother of all universes? To try and answer this further, my next project will be to build a telescope. It will be powerful enough to see to the edge of our universe and to discover where we are in an infinite sea of universes.