The atom model with the electrons going around the nucleus, is inspired by the solar system. The better model doesn't look anything alike. This is a naturalistic circular fallacy
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What if we’re all wrong and the Paulie exclusion principle is just electrons clearing their orbit of debris (sub electrons). Also, for the heaviest elements the outer shell is actually populated by dwarf-electrons. And electron sharing in molecules is just Oort Cloud stuff somehow. And our galaxy is a virus. And our bodies are a battleground. And humans are just batteries. Whait a minute —
Yes, because everybody knows the earth is in the sun's p orbital
Nono, these are d orbitals. Although p orbitals are equally silly.
these are f orbitals, there is 5 of d orbitals
Just testing how deep Cunninghams law will go haha
that only works outside of dead internet
I stand corrected. I should have checked; I mean, I'm not a quantum astrophysicist.
I just woke up and read that as "quantum aristocrat".
Lol. For all I know I could be a quantum aristocrat, but whenever I open my bank account its wave function collapses to about $300
Honestly the visual representation of the atom is just a simplified artist's rendition. It's more acceptable to treat the atom's components as charge fields filled with very high energy contained by nuclear forces. That said, the planets with molten cores and the sun also have their own electromagnetic fields so maybe the concept isn't so far off.
It would be fun to see the planets zipping around in random locations in their orbit. And if you kick one hard enough, it pops over to another orbit and emits a huge ass photon when it pops back.
There was a guy on the net years ago who claimed that the entire universe is an electron on a plutonium atom. He made a religion out of it, wrote hymns to the atom (or, more precisely, changed the words of Christian hymns, clumsily fitting in references to plutonium atoms) and even legally changed his name to Archimedes Plutonium.
I always find it fascinating how specific those theories become. Want to believe that our universe is just some sort of quark in a bigger universe we can't know anything about? Fine. Doesn't make terribly much sense, but what does at that scale anyway? But then going on and being sure that that bigger thing must be Plutonium? Why? How?
With a name like that I imagine his cause of death might be in the radioactive “bathtub” of a nuclear rod cooling pool
I've always liked this idea. Like, everything just repeats as infinitum whether you look smaller and smaller or bigger and bigger. The universe is just one of those fractal image kaleidoscopes.
I mean when I'm on Delta-8 that's how I see the world, sometimes on shrooms too. Everything is just zooming out and zooming in, and it's all just.... the same thing, but not the same time... and all of it is turning to face God, but they only see the others turning to face God, infinitely everything looking for the source, but we can only see the other universes looking for God....
It'a... circular, I think it's going somewhere but it doesn't.
Because really there is only energy converting and shifting that's it. Energy and tidal forces caused by presence of that energy bro.
And we're just the universe looking back at itself screaming a choir of mortal panic
I mean as long as I survive my death that's fine
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather."
Bill Hicks
I've been into gut health lately and I was thinking what if we are the microorganisms inside a bigger beings gut? This planet is just one part of it and in order for the universe to have a healthy gut we would have to terra form the planets and make healthy worlds. (I don't think we will actually do that. We are more likely to mine every other planet)
The universe's gut now looks like the typical American diet gut with ultra processed foods and not enough fiber/fermented foods.
"well brain, it seems you really need this sleep because that makes no sense whatsoever"
Considering how much shit orbits the sun that would be one wildly unstable atom
Nah. Sun just acts as the Queen Atom. Without it, you’d end up with a Helvetica Scenario. This is basic science.
Me too
There are better manners to avoid the sleep
I thought of this on the toilet when I was 14
Each galaxy is a neuron of God's mind.