Is this how the universe works?

This is how the Simpson's Universe works though. This is why there seems to be continuity problems and no one ages or changes clothes.
 
I hope everyone noticed that the big ugly octopus that tried to kill Homer (humans) when he was a fish was really Mr. Burns in the evolution Simpsons beginning. Eeeeexcellent.
 
From Cosmos, by Carl Sagan:

...there may be just enough matter to close the cosmos and to trap us forever in an oscillating universe. If the cosmos is closed there’s a strange, haunting, evocative possibility, one of the most exquisite conjectures in science or religion. It’s entirely undemonstrated, it may never be proved, but it’s stirring:

Our entire universe, to the farthest galaxy, we are told, is no more than a closed electron in a far grander universe we can never see. That universe is only an elementary particle in another still greater universe and so on forever. Also, every electron in our universe, it is claimed, is an entire miniature cosmos containing galaxies and stars and life and electrons. Every one of those electrons contains a still smaller universe, an infinite regression up and down.
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rwp said:
From Cosmos, by Carl Sagan:
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That sort of thing has always seemed a pretty dumb speculation to me. If our universe is an electron in the pimple of another universe's butt, then that other universe has fundamental particles which admit a classical ontology. And the electrons in the pimple on my butt don't.

There really are profound differences in our physical laws at different scales, and there is nothing whatsoever to suggest a "looping back" like Sagan postulates. Sure we use the solar system to model an atom to children- but that is where that analogy should stop IMO...
 
rwp said:
From Cosmos, by Carl Sagan:
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...there may be just enough matter to close the cosmos and to trap us forever in an oscillating universe. If the cosmos is closed there’s a strange, haunting, evocative possibility, one of the most exquisite conjectures in science or religion. It’s entirely undemonstrated, it may never be proved, but it’s stirring:

Our entire universe, to the farthest galaxy, we are told, is no more than a closed electron in a far grander universe we can never see. That universe is only an elementary particle in another still greater universe and so on forever. Also, every electron in our universe, it is claimed, is an entire miniature cosmos containing galaxies and stars and life and electrons. Every one of those electrons contains a still smaller universe, an infinite regression up and down.
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Even if the universe isn't closed, couldn't our universe/cosmos still be an elementary particle in a larger cosmos? Just a particle that would presumably appear to be decaying in that larger cosmos?
 
The Big Crunch Theory dictating that the universe is something that light can't escape from, making it a singularity with the event horizon being the cell wall that makes us just a cell in a big organism. Wow.

Of course Dark Energy is supposed to explain how the Big Crunch is impossible, due to the fact that Hubble's Expanding universe is still expanding and will continue to do so . . . presumably because of this mysterious anti-gravity force. Dark Energy man.

If that's real, then we are probably not a cell . . . unless we have popped.
 
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