I bet you “a signed dollar”, you won’t guess what this post is going to be about. Not by looking at the title. 🙂
Think near-zero values. Think the size of a quant which Max Planck and many other brilliant minds were trying to uncover.
And here’s the catch: the proverbial size of a quant… it depends!
Not all quants are created equal. Now, let that sink into you – not all quants are created equal!
In space, you find super-long “dark-matter” waves. At sub-atomic levels, you’ll find super-tiny quants (they’re always “waves”) that are X nano millimeters long.
On near-zero values
Let’s say there is Universe 1 and Universe 2. If you subtract all matter from Universe 1, its zero will be smaller than if you subtract all matter from Universe 2.
Let’s say Universe 2 is older, it’s expanding faster, and hence it contains more matter to subtract.
Let’s assume that Universe 1 is “our” Universe. In our measurement systems, a meter is meter, and a foot is a foot, no matter what. Human beings are not concerned with the fact that the number of meters/feet gets bigger as time passes by.
The size of our planet and the size of our bodies do not change relative to each other. But they are shrinking by comparison to the rest of the world, the rest of the Universe.
So we may say that, in the Universal context, human beings are becoming more minute, more miserable every day. 🙂
ANNO DOMINI 