my favorite existential theory

While this is a theory I myself have thought of, I am obviously not the first to imagine it. To my younger self's disappointment, it is already a thoroughly considered idea on the topic of the scale of the universe. Not sure if the theory has a specific name or not, I always called it waterfall theory because of an analogy I'll discuss.

The base question is "What if matter is infinitely divisible?" We currently theorize quarks are the very smallest building block of matter, but could we not be wrong? Thinkers like Democritus, and perhaps the first of those who came later who actually proved the existence of the atom had imagined that atoms are the base individual building blocks of matter, and cannot be broken down into anything simpler. Of course, it was soon discovered in the 1800s and early 1900s i believe that protons exist, neutrons, electrons, etc. In 1964, the idea of quarks were first proposed. 1968, a series of experiments were conducted indicating that protons and electrons may not be point-like particles, rather a summary of smaller charges. Ie, experimental proof of quarks. Of course we have no real idea if these quarks are made of anything, and as far as I know we have yet to actually observe them. 

Lets assume that quarks can be divided even further. Considering that as technological progress seems to grow exponentially greater, and we have in the last centuries proved ourselves wrong or at least inaccurate several times, the pattern may indicate that there is no "smallest building block". Or at least thats the way I see it. (I should note that the theory I discuss is not necessarily something I believe, rather something I find interesting as a thought experiment.) Alright. So quarks can be theoretically divided. What makes up quarks? Who knows. But we also don't know what makes up that. Or what makes up what makes up that. Essentially the idea is, again, that matter can be split an infinite number of times into smaller and smaller particles. You really have to consider how absolutely fuckin massive infinity is by the way, this goes the same way as the Infinite Monkey theorem, in which a monkey typing on a type writer randomly will eventually write the collective works of Shakespeare without error given an infinite amount of time (it will also do this an infinite number of times). 

OKAY back to what I was trying to say because i went on a weird tangent that probably lost your interest long ago. 

If you keep chopping down matter infinitely, you'll probably reach a pretty large number of redundant particles. Just bits of matter whos sole purpose is to make up the larger bit. But if it is truly infinitely divisible, isn't it possible, even PROBABLE that life exists on some such smaller scale? Even conscious life? Perhaps infinite civilizations constitute each grain of sand under foot, each little speck of dust. And perhaps we are that civilization. 

If matter is infinitely divisible then it could also be infinitely multipliable in a way, our universe could be an undiscovered building block of somebody elses goddamn hamburger. Our entire existence could be summed up in a tiny bubble of a waterfall, forming out of the impact of rushing water (the big bang), and collapsing at the end of its short lived journey (heat death). And then that waterfall exists in its own world, which exists in its own solar system, which exists in its own galaxy, which exists in its own universe, which exists in its own bubble. The simple pop of a single bubble can trigger change in an infinite number of smaller universes, which each have an infinite number of smaller universes and so on. With time dilation acting as it does, the span of a bubbles "lifetime" could translate to the hundreds of billions of years that make up the total amount of time in our universe.

Anyways sorry for the yap, i just felt like saying something needlessly complicated that is currently unprovable anyways, probably unlikely its true as well. Whatever. I had fun.