How Big is Our Reality?

A strange thought crossed my mind, as I looked at my cup of coffee this morning. I love to drink my coffee with powered creamer and most of the time, this creamer leaves shapes and images on the surface of the fluid. What I saw on the surface looked much like our own earth may look like from above, with land mass, oceans and suns. This picture started me thinking about my current reality, and the possibilities of other worlds, or realities, existing elsewhere and embedded in this reality.

The experience that we call a reality feels truly real to us. As vast, large and expansive as this world, and our universe seems, I wonder if what we call real is only a speck compared to everything there is? We can clearly see that we have land mass, bodies of water, an atmosphere, and many great and wonderful details of our existence. We can certainly experience our environment through our physical senses, but is our reality all that there is? The advent of quantum physics has opened all kinds of new information that suggests, and in many ways proves, that this reality is only a very small part of what exists. It seems that there is some new scientific breakthrough that demonstrates our reality is just a very tiny slice of all there is. Parallel…