Nature of reality

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Nature of reality

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If a whole new reality can exists within an already existing reality , in terms of space proportions or size relations. How can one prove that our reality is not a subset of a much greater reality , that is distinguished by size differences ? , and we exist the same way electrons/atoms float seamlessly in an seemingly closed and solid material object ? , What will happen if something was to grow indefinitely big or indefinitely small ?
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When I look out at the night sky, I figure that it might be similar to an atom's "eye view" - much relative space dotted with distant concentrations of mass that exert forces resulting in chaotic interactions. If you have a large enough amount of chaos brewing for a long enough time and forms will appear and disappear constantly, but some forms take much longer to break down ... hence the Milky Way, the Sun, Earth and us. We are all relatively persistent physical things (leaving metaphysical considerations aside for a moment).

I see no reason why large parts of galaxies can't eventually be highly connected, resulting in enormous, hyper-advanced conglomerated life forms, over the next trillion years. After all, fair bit has happened in about 1/70th of that time.
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"If a whole new reality can exists within an already existing reality , in terms of space proportions or size relations. How can one prove that our reality is not a subset of a much greater reality , that is distinguished by size differences ? , and we exist the same way electrons/atoms float seamlessly in an seemingly closed and solid material object ? , What will happen if something was to grow indefinitely big or indefinitely small ?"

Large and small, do not exist in reality, but are only relative to us. Things bigger the us are considered to be large and things smaller then us, small, however if we are removed from the equation, there is nothing to compare large and small to, so the infinitely small, is as large as large can be!
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The very existence of perception indicates an infinite reality: As perception is a relativistic event, it must necessarily follow that there be no end to the relations, no 'walls'.

And as Present awareness indicates, dimension is a relative construct: Whoever is doing the perceiving will envision reality in relation to themselves.
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