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I’d been swimming in a luxurious, long, deep pool in the San Fernando Valley at. 83° by a thermometer in the water while 100°+ in the air.

Sitting in the Sun, feet dangling in the water, I could see the light’s refracted patterns (Snell’s law) from it’s surface along the bottom of the pool.

I’d seen video documentary mock-ups to show how existence “looks” at or near the Planck Scale. Yet here and now was an example even clearer.

Envisioning part of the pool bottom as a slice of “quantum” space, filaments fleeted into existence, each having been created by that gone before and out of them. And bits of brightness, (again, reflections of the Sun along the surface, cast on the bottom and sides) would move along the length of each segment, intersecting with their ends, such “strings” quickly dissipating here, and reappearing there with each such interaction.

Moreover, from my calves and feet, there would enter waves of interference that would yield to the “strings” an even greater sense of overall excitation. This too might be seen as a representation of the “Uncertainty Principle” where at the quantum level, “virtual” entities come into and go out of existence, yet perhaps summing to an “actualization” of reality, which however even billions of years hence, may as likely decay and zap back into the void from whence they came.

And I’d bet too that this could all be worked out mathematically.

But, as I said, it’s merely a representation of such conditions, which is all that can ever be achieved at the Planck Scale anyway. So as this lazy day’s imaginings gave rise to other waxings, into the water I went, even in that second of submergence, to childhood again.