This is my new favorite movie.  It was made in 1957 and the main character shrinks and shrinks and eventually drifts off into space, the size of a speck of dust….but is still shrinking!

Closing soliloquy narration:

I was continuing to shrink, to become… what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God’s silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man’s own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man’s conception, not nature’s. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!

I feel like this, except my body isn’t dwindling.  Also, the concluding sentence is in doubt.

Great movie, though.  Very existential.

Great concept, I hope I remember to check it out sometime.

This seems similar to the idea that between any two numbers there are an infinite amount of other numbers.  So between 1 and 2, there is 1.5, for example, and between 1 and 1.5 is 1.25, etc.  So there is infinity between every 2 numbers, even though the increments are increasingly tiny.

We must be of similar vintage Saralynn. I remember watching that movie as a kid. It’s one that stuck in my mind, too. Remember the scene in which he is attacked by a house spider and gets underneath it with a sewing needle (the needle was about twice as long as he was at that stage of his dimunition)and rams into the spider’s abdomen?