Thoughts that you have when watching the latest #AntMan:
- The quantum world operates on Planck time (the unit of time it takes a photon to travel one Planck length), which is roughly 5.39 x 10^-44 seconds.
- The scale of the universe that we subjectively perceive as humans operates at the level of milliseconds (neurons work on the millisecond scale). Let's be conservative and assume that our subjective reality exists at a temporal scale with a lower bound of 1 microsecond (10^-6 seconds).
- There have been roughly 4.35 x 10^23 microseconds since the Big Bang.
- If we existed at the quantum scale, right now our universe would be at less than 1 second after the Big Bang.
It's wild to think about how many microuniverses could conceivably come and go in a single second of our perceived time.