Everywhere you look, trillions of microbes are floating through the air, swimming through the water, rolling around in the dirt. It's estimated that the total mass of microbes on Earth is 20 times more than all other life combined- astonishing when you consider they can't be seen with the naked eye. Life seems to be ingrained in the very fabric of our planet, relentless in its variety.
Imagine that you were magically transformed into the size of an amoeba. A visitor such as yourself to the word of microbes would likely find it an alien environment. The surreal images of these creatures would make it feel like being on a totally different planet. All the strange shapes, sizes, colors, and movements of these critters offer such a vast array of originality that no one would possibly think they were still on planet Earth, unless they were a microbiologist.
The most interesting thing about the realm of microbes is that they experience time differently from us. They experience time slower than we do, just as time experienced by an atom is even slower than a microbe's perception. Consciousness in relation to size has an inverse relationship to time; the larger the body of consciousness is, the faster time is perceived by it. Microbes that are perceived to live for only 3 hours by us would be perceived to live 20 relative years by something as small as they are.
Gravity is not the reason for this, because gravity doesn't operate on the quantum level, at least not the gravity we are familiar with. Rather it's a lower order of gravity that operates in the quantum realm, governed by nuclear and electric forces. This suborder of gravity allows time to defragment itself, depending on how small the observer is. The same effect happens on universal levels, where the largest bodies in outer space experience time as an integral of all the time experienced by conscious beings inside it (put together as a sum), just like how its matter and energy has an integral relationship to its total.
When you consider how an observer of the whole universe would experience time, all things unfold in the blink of an eye. The universe as a collective consciousness is observing time so quickly that everything is happening all at once. That's why time ceases to exist beyond the boundaries of space; there is no matter to provide it consciousness, and therefore no perception of time.
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