Do you think that our solar system is comparable to an atom that is part of a larger system?
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Our solar system only remotely resembles an atom. The way electrons orbit atoms bears little resemblance to how planets orbit the sun. Planet follow nice well defined ellipses with the sun located at one of the foci. Electrons exist in 'clouds' described by probability and in fact have a small but finite probability of being found in the nucleus at any given instant. We never find a planet in the sun.
no more like a giant toffee apple
You never know... It could be very possible, though...
I wouldn't be surprised if that were true.
Slightly, if you compare orbits and particles, but then I guess since everything starts out on the atomic level, it all ties together.
i love astronomy and i do think they are comparable. atoms, solar systems, galaxies, all within the universe. and beyond that?
Fractals, my dear boy, fractals.
yes it is possible
No.
No. The physics of atoms do not match the physics of the solar system at all.
no ..this universe is one and the only place of existing atoms, out side and inside of this a spiritual plane is the the the source of all atoms
Accordingly to varying scientists of equally varying degrees, the Universe is a continually expanding zone, where length and width and volume and measurement is all known to be useless if attempting to measure the beginning to the end of the Universe. If we build off of that piece of hypothetical information, the current Solar System that Earth and its inhabitants (us) are percieved as a much smaller unit that an atom- It's impossibly uncomparable to try to compare something as miniscule, impossibly miniscule, to something that is eternally expanding. The Universe will apparently stop expanding at the end of time, which makes no real sense anyways- But who are we to understand infinity itself?
Therefore, I think that:
No, our solar system is not comparable to an atom that is part of a larger system, and so on and so forth, because it is even smaller.
Infiniti is to Eternity as Eternity if to Infinity.
Sorry about getting onto a rant about the galaxy, but there you have it- My true opinion.
After all, I'm only 13 years.
No, the comparison between the solar system and an atom, is to show in the school a concept for them to understand.
But it is too different, as well as the universe and galaxies structures.
This quaint notion goes back at least to Ray Cumming's SF story, "The Girl in the Golden Atom", first published 80 years ago, and quite possibly predates him. Since electrons share orbits in all elements above the level of hydrogen, and make quantum shifts in energy levels, which is quite impossible for a planet, the answer has to be no.
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