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Infintessimally smaller and larger universes?

22 03 10 - 15:44 Well I need to kick start things off with something, and I thought it apt to use an idea I discussed with a friend of mine during one of our Gin drinking nights.

Of course purely imagined and with very little basis in scientific fact, I came up with a theory that I am sure many have thought before. Atoms and their orbiting electrons bare a striking similarity to planets orbiting suns. This might seem like a slightly idiotic thought to begin with, but when you realise that 99.99999(etc)% of an atom is infact empty space, and everything we perceive as solid is similarly empty space, it starts to seem much more like a minute version of the universe.

Add to that we've been gradually breaking the atom into smaller and smaller pieces, what's to say that there is ever any limit to how small a piece can be broken off? Currently electrons are considered fundamental particles (not possible to break into anything smaller), but I would suggest eventually we'll find a way to do that too.

So what if all our atoms are merely suns and planets of a microscopic universe? And all our suns and planets are just atoms of a macroscopic universe? And both the tiny and massive universes are similarly just part of a smaller and a bigger one in much the same manner?

Just a thought.