Richard Dawkins Presentation Week 3 Post 2

Dawkins has some interesting ideas about how humans have adapted to live in a "middle" world, between the extremely large (like planets and stars) and the extremely small (as in atoms).  People can see, as he says, the solidity of a rock even though most of the space it actually occupies is empty, because we have evolved to recognize the solidarity of objects for our own survival.  Likewise, it would be a lot easier to recognize the way space and time relate to each other if we were the size of planets or stars.  Of course, this is not the case.

 

            If we were the size of germs, would we recognize the physics of quantum mechanics easier?  Would we even care?  In this "middle world" form, as Dawkins describes, we barely even knew about many things we can observe and evaluate with our senses until relatively recently.  There are still aspects of our own little "universe" that still are mysteries, and this would be the same if we were born into the extremely large universe or the extremely small one.  That begs the question, however, of are there larger and smaller universes that we just can't plain out see?  And if we were born into these other worlds, would we be able to recognize these?