CHAPTER VII 



MATTER AND LIFE FROM WITHIN 



1. OUR investigations up to this have given many 

 reasons for believing, and none for disbelieving, that 

 a world resembling the universe known to us exists 

 around us on a very much smaller, but not infinitely 

 smaller, scale. We have seen, in fact, that it is 

 possible for two similar universes, differing only in 

 the size of its discrete particles, to occupy the same 

 space at the same time. Also, that to leave one 

 universe and enter another, it is only necessary 

 that our size be reduced or increased 10 22 times, 

 or the ratio of the sizes of the starry heavens and 

 the smallest visible speck of dust. Events happen in 

 the small-scale universe, the infra-world, as much 

 more rapidly as its sizes are smaller. 



There is an ancient Irish legend about a land 

 called Tir nan-Ogue, the Land of the Young. Those 

 who, like Ossian, spent what they thought were 

 o years there, found on their return to Ireland 

 that three centuries had passed by during their 

 absence in the Field of Bliss. This is the converse 

 of a visit to the infra-world. Such a visit would re- 

 semble more closely our usual experience in dreams, 



