“What would mankind do if they possessed the power of creating new worlds?” asks Swedish designer and animator Andreas Wannerstedt in his cheeky, sci-fi-inspired 3D animated short film Genesis.Ever since the first-rate scientists of the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) successfully recreated a miniature version of the Big Bang last year, it seems as if we’re on the brink of unlocking all the mysteries of the universe. Toiling away in the underground laboratories of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest particle accelerator, the world’s best scientists shoot beams around a freezing 27km concrete ring, smashing atoms together in search of the near-mystical Higgs boson, or “God particle.” The particle is believed to hold the key to validating not just the Big Bang but the standard model of physics as we know it.Taking these experiments and their implications as his departure point, Wannerstedt envisions a future where we have not only unraveled these enigmatic scientific wonders that made our universe possible, but replicated and perfected the process on a miniature scale. What would mankind do if we could create mini universes? Why, commodify it, of course.In Wannerstedt’s satirical fantasy, an LHC-like machine creates miniature universes for the purpose of harvesting their miniature planets and stuffing them into the type of mundane snow globes you might give your niece or nephew—the “guaranteed gift of the year,” according to Wannerstedt. And indeed, it’s not hard to imagine something of the sort gracing the cover of WIRED at some point in the not too distant future.Sure, it’s a marked jab at our compulsively consumeristic tendencies—taking a process that has confounded mankind for centuries, that holds the answers to our very existence, and stripping it of all significance through mass production. Still, we’d totally buy one. Would you?