Not possible in principle. To get the quarks out of confinement, we have to put in so much energy that they can plug out other quarks from the vacuum and become another hadron.
Smaller as in fewer things to remember. 4 elements are very little things to remember, expand it to 12 characteristics of the 4 elements, not so easy to remember. Hard, soft, smooth, rough, heavy, light, hot, cold, pushing, supporting, flow, cohesion. (From Knowing and See (Fifth Revised Edition) - Google Play Books pg 117)
The periodic table got 100 over things, and most of what we experience are actually molecules of many different complicated arrangements. We don’t even have enough senses to detect individual molecules, at most have to use imagination as well.
I tried imagination, which I think is sort of valid for asubha practise having to imagine the internal organs. So quantum field theory says, there are only fields, as in magnetic field, gravitational field, but for particle fields. Particles are just the value of the field having higher energy at that location, it emerges from the vacuum as particle. However, as we go to quantum realm, there’s no stable position or momentum, the uncertainty principle reigns supreme. Virtual particles can pop up and interact with any “real” particles and pop back into vacuum. As long as they obey the energy-time uncertainty principle. The bigger (more mass, more energy) the particle-anti particle pair which pops out of the field, the smaller the time it can remain in existance before having to return the borrowed energy.
So it’s a quantum foam chaos down below. Happening everywhere, all the time. I imagined this body as just excitations of the quantum field, so when walking, the previous position where the body was those quantum fields at those locations had de-excited to go down back to vacuum. The new location where the leg is occupied has the quantum fields excited to give rise to the appearance of particles being there. The coherence of the body depends on the laws of physics working perfectly. It can become so scary.
If we take into account that even while sitting still, the earth is rotating and orbiting, the solar system is moving, etc, it’s even scarier. The body is appearing and disappearing all the time. How can something which is so insubstantial, so impermanent be held onto as self? But well, it only works for the body, I am not convinced that the mind is a quantum field.
I didn’t do this very often, not that easy to do. Maybe not enough discipline to see the fear too.
I am halfway through this book: The Quantum Revelation — Awaken in the Dream by Paul Levy
The author of quantum Buddhism Graham Smetham http://quantumbuddhism.org/ said pagalized his idea. http://www.quantumbuddhism.org/QProphetsNew.pdf
Basically from Graham’s book of Quantum Buddhism and the Higgs discovery, he equates the emptiness with quantum field vacuum. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. There’s no identification of the quantum field as self.