Perhaps the universe as we see it is just a scaled up instance of some molecular matter, and with a very much stretched definition of time.
Our universe may just be a part of a leaf on an incoherently large plant or grain of sand on a humongous beach. The mind boggles. And it hurts my brain trying to imagine the extent of what we may be part of.
Our solar system is just a small atom in another realm. Earth is an electron.
Sacre blue.