Chapter 6. Assembling the Whole from the Parts with the Composite
When I was about 11 or 12 years old, I developed a theory of the universe. You see, I had just learned about the solar system and about atoms, and the similarities between the two seemed to be more than a coincidence. While our solar system has planets whirling around the sun, the atom (at least when you learn about it in elementary school) has electrons spinning around its nucleus. I remember wondering whether our whole world wasn’t just an electron in some larger universe. And maybe there was some fantastically tiny adolescent living out his whole life in a world that was part of the last atom at the tip of my pencil.
Although my theory almost certainly involved faulty physics, ...
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