LOL! Yeah, I remember that song.
Now, instead of trying to imagine going back to a "beginning" of "existence" or even "non-existence", try to conceptualize becoming infinitely smaller.
As you begin your journey, you see molecules becoming the size of earth, followed by atoms becoming the size of the Earth, followed by protons, neutrons and electrons becoming comparable to the size of the Earth, followed by quarks becoming the size of the Earth, followed by string particles becoming the size of the Earth. Then, you begin to examine, in intricate detail, what string particles are actually comprised of. You discover a new plane of molecules, atoms, etc. Then you shrink yourself down again so that the very smallest materials you could identify were the size of the Earth, and you start the process all over again. Would it ever end?
It would be interesting to explore the opposite way, too, if you imagined becoming so large that the realm of existence itself were the size of string particle from your new perspective, and yet if you looked around, you see and an immensely large "universe" around you.
I think it is safe to say that we will ever understand the intricacies of what lies beyond time, space and even the meager theories that we conjure up, because, as you suggested in a different post, we don't know anything about infinity -- temporally, spatially, multi-dimensionally or otherwise. We don't know and, apparently, it's not possible to know. |
