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Microverses

by Breck Yunits

March 12, 2025

We live above 7 microverses that we cannot see no matter how hard we squint.

Each microverse is ten times larger than the one above.

Each is its own land with unique creatures, phenomena and rules.

We rely on scopes, and experiments, and symbols to map the territory.

How many concepts to describe each world? 1,000? 10,000? More?

I gave these microverses names: Hairfield, Bloodland, Mitotown, Viralworld, Proteinplace, Moleculeville, Atomboro.

And that just gets us to the atomic level. But there are many more lands beyond that we cannot see. It may be closer to the beginning than the end.

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name microverse diameter source visibleSince
Hydrogen Atom Atomboro 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_radius 1970
Glucose Moleculeville 15 https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?&id=106979 1961
Hemoglobin Proteinplace 85 https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=105116&ver=4&trm=hemoglobin&org= 1840
SARS-CoV-2 Viralworld 1000 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7224694/ 1931
Mitochondria Mitotown 10000 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26894/ 1857
Red Blood Cell Bloodland 80000 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2998922/ 1678
Human ovum Hairfield 1200000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_cell 1677

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