I don't know whether someone has already thought previously about the similarity between our microcosmic and macrocosmic world or not. Something has tickled my mind and it reminds me of an old sci-fi based sitcom TV serial starred by Robin Williams and Pam Dawber.

One episode showed how Mork suddenly shrunk when he was standing on the carpet. In his very small size figure, Mork saw his surrounding as a different world. He found himself in a jungle (where there was supposed to be the carpet) and met some creatures in his shrunk size. Actually it was so long ago so I cannot remember all the details of the story. However the morality of this story is I want you to think whether there is also life in our microcosmic world.

I assume it is something alive when all the atoms or smaller things are moving. So are the solar systems and galaxies. We all know that we live in a planet inside a solar system within a galaxy and so on. We also think about the possibility of other kind of extra terrestrial intelligent out there (see more). But we never think of other kind of life in our microcosmic world. The civilized intelligent life just like us, just like we expect when we search for life in other solar systems and galaxies. I know you may say that it's just a silly thinking. It is only happened in sci-fi movies and books. But don't forget that all the discoveries previously have been predicted or at least described in sci-fi movies and books. In fact, helicopter long ago had been sketched by Leonardo Da Vinci.

I was inspired by the quotation of one of the fathers of neuroscience who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Sir Charles Scott Sherrington :
“It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns.” (details here)

In this quotation, seventy five years ago, Sir Sherrington stated - not only predicted - that inside active (for not saying living) substance, there is kind of looming moving things that he described similar to Milky Way, our galaxy. My 'out of the box' thinking said that what if there is life in all things around us? And what if our universe is actually a thing like that brain which the appearance desribed above by Sir Sherrington?

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