# Ever wondered if our universe is just the inside of a person? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072 "2009-11-26T23:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sloane\_Cabot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Sloane\_Cabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sloane_Cabot)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/1 "2009-11-26T23:35:35Z")
Is the universe just a life form. And inside of us there is a universe. I mean the way the stars and atoms, despite their size, work relatively the same way. All of the empty space of space is so similar to the empty space we see between electrons and the nucleus of an atom. Maybe its a stretch, but… I may have found my religion. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/2 "2009-11-26T23:37:53Z")
Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Gunslinger I think ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/3 "2009-11-26T23:48:19Z")
_Ever wondered if our universe is just the inside of a person?_ Not while I was sober. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/4 "2009-11-26T23:51:05Z")
It’s all covered pretty comprehensively here: [The Onion | America's Finest News Source.](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29433) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/5 "2009-11-26T23:55:52Z")
**Sloane** , you drank the bong water again, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/6 "2009-11-27T00:35:03Z")
I know which anatomical feature New Jersey is… ---
**Author:** ![General\_Derangement](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@General\_Derangement](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/General_Derangement)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/7 "2009-11-27T00:39:23Z")
Actually, I did wonder that. But then I came to the conclusion that if this world, or more accurately the people in it, were ingested, it would cause massive indigestion. Of course, that might account for the sound of thunder… ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/8 "2009-11-27T03:16:09Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > It’s all covered pretty comprehensively here: [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29433](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29433) Oh, after reading that, you _know_ I just have to fire up my voice-simulation software (that sounds exactly like the one Hawking uses) and type in his “quotes” from this Onion article, just to hear him “say” that. I can’t believe I’m the only one to have thought of that! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/9 "2009-11-27T03:29:32Z")
Jump to 2:08: [Animal House–Smoke some pot](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mv2b_animal-house-smoke-some-pot_fun) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/10 "2009-11-27T04:09:30Z")
> [@Sloane\_Cabot](#): > > I mean the way the stars and atoms, despite their size, work relatively the same way. Except for not at all, really. ---
**Author:** ![Sloane\_Cabot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Sloane\_Cabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sloane_Cabot)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/11 "2009-11-27T04:16:37Z")
> [@](#): > > The universe-as-possible-giant-atom theory originated in May with a team of Cal Tech particle physicists, who developed the theory late one night while sitting around on a couch in the Physics Department’s cyclotron and foosball facility, “just shooting the shit.” -the onion God damn college kids beating me to the punch. If I had the time to shoot shit or anything at all then I would have come up with the theory years ago. sonuva… ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/12 "2009-11-27T08:16:09Z")
I found my religion just a few days ago while watching Cosmos by Carl Sagen. “We are all made of star stuff” and when we die we return to the Cosmos via the Earth. That’s good enough for me, I reckon I can die in peace now. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wondered-if-our-universe-is-just-the-inside-of-a-person/519072/13 "2009-11-27T11:30:41Z")
I think that idea is called “micro-cosmos-macro cosmos”