You Won’t Believe My Morning

You Won’t Believe My Morning is a blog post on the blog Wait But Why, written by Tim Urban Tim Urban. It describes his very unusual morning. 
The following section was written by Claude-2-100k, a special AI particularly good at creative writing and capable of handling massive prompts, with revisions by Superbattleshipyamato. 
While sitting outside his apartment building, Tim notices a peculiar glinting light on the sidewalk which leads him to discover a microscopic village, with houses the size of grains of sand. Tiny letters next to the village instruct him to put his thumb on a small oval. When he does, he feels intensely dizzy and nauseous before finding himself transported into the tiny village, now shrunk down to 0.18mm tall. 
A woman named Layla explains he is in a parallel world 1/10,000th the size of his own where time moves 100x faster. The residents used a powerful laser telescope to catch Tim’s eye and direct him to their village, wanting to show him something important. Layla gives Tim a tour of the village and shows him a massive structure stretching into the sky, which is just the first brick of his apartment building at this tiny scale.
Inside a building, Layla demonstrates a model of the coronavirus, explaining her people engineered it with the help of an even more advanced civilization existing on a smaller scale. She reveals there are multiple nested worlds, each exponentially smaller and more sophisticated than the one above. Her people want the pandemic to unite humanity in wisdom, but feel it is not having the desired effect.
To show Tim firsthand, Layla brings him to the next world down, shrinking him to 18 nanometers tall, on the scale of atoms. At this size, the virus is enlarged to house-size. By removing an atom from the virus model, Tim grasps the complexity. Layla explains the atomic-scale people gifted them the virus, hoping to mature the uppermost world. She describes the challenge of delivering the microbe into a planet-sized realm.
Hoping to inspire wisdom, Layla reveals this multi-layered reality to Tim. She implies there are likely more unknown scales above and below. After this perspective-shifting journey, Tim is finally returned to his original size, now understanding the interconnected ecosystems existing beneath ordinary perception.
== Full post ==
https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/03/my-morning.html
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