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To: Las Vegas Dave; MUDDOG
"[closing soliloquy narration] Scott Carey: I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future?

If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world?

So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite.

But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle.

I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite.

I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing.

My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too.

To God, there is no zero. I still exist! "


..........The Incredible Shrinking Man - 1957

One of best sci-fi movies made. Guaranteed they'll screw up the remake and I bet they never mention God.

31 posted on 07/06/2014 9:08:35 AM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: Jed Eckert
Great movie. It's a good topic to hang a tale on.

I always wonder though what happens when you get small enough for quantum effects to kick in. It's not just a matter of scale; it's a whole new set of rules.

32 posted on 07/06/2014 9:33:19 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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