Originally Posted by: aschleman
I had a dream once where I founded a theory of how the Earth and Universe as we know it... is nothing more than a single chemical structure of something much larger... Like how our planets are neutrons and electrons and the son is a nucleus... We're all just one tiny piece of a much larger chemical structure... Ironically we're just part of the same structure that everyone comes to learn about in Chemistry..... I woke up and laughed nervously... then I started playing guitar and I didn't really care after that point.

That's really not far from reality at all, if you look at even just the visible universe from the perspective of scale. Truly the sizes and distances are unimaginable. So maybe we are just little protozoans of this planet, which is actually invisible on the galactic scale.