• averyminya@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Wow, that’s awesome. I’ve been thinking a lot about the scale of the universe and how cyclical it is.

    Take a scaled out view of our solar system and then compare it to a molecules composition (the atom or group of atoms surrounded by protons and neutrons) and the similarities are just uncanny.

    Like this image, what’s to say that we aren’t just part of a molecule making up the chemical composition of something far larger than ourselves. An ant has no concept of the vast empty space between the United States and Europe, we know that is the case between solar systems but our actual understanding of our relationship in space is limited.

    P.S. look at the patterns of discharge of electricity in wood/paper/stone and then look at the patterns of the Grand Canyon. They’re the same! And the Grand Canyon is the only formation we have that exhibits this quality, which makes it extra interesting.

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      Take a scaled out view of our solar system and then compare it to a molecules composition (the atom or group of atoms surrounded by protons and neutrons) and the similarities are just uncanny.

      Nah, the planetary model of the atom is outdated. The quantum model doesn’t look very much like a solar system.

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        1 year ago

        The quantum model doesn’t look very much like a solar system.

        Not even a little bit, really. Quantum mechanics is in fact almost nothing like what school taught me.