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>> Are we sitting in a ball on some gigantic alien's coffee table? sometimes I have the same question but quite opposite. What if there are miniscule worlds ri
by dugluak 7y ago
>> Are we sitting in a ball on some gigantic alien's coffee table?
sometimes I have the same question but quite opposite. What if there are miniscule worlds right on our coffee table.
- swamp40 7y agoBoth.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoMen in Black and Horton Hears A Who: Both true tales that future generations will understand as visionaries slipping a little reality under the door of our current narrow-minded and backwards prejudices.
- jeffwass 7y agoHorton Hears a Who
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoOn being given the planetary model of an atom I think it's relatively common to consider that maybe atoms are mini star systems. That was one of my early "aw shucks, someone else had that idea already!?" deflationary moments.
- will_brown 7y agoThat was exactly the early thought and why the commonly accepted image of an atom with a nucleous and orbiting electrons looks just like a solar system. Of course that’s not at all what atoms look like or how they behave.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoDo you have a source for that? AIUI Rutherford's model focussed the mass in the nucleus based-on/inspired-by Nagaoka's Saturnian model. Then Bohr's model specifically put electrons in orbit but they were there to explain atomic emission spectra and so needed to move between orbits - not at all like planets. I think the thought was that electrons orbited a nucleus in a "planetary" way, rather than them being actual nano-scale planets.
- will_brown 7y agoOr both...we can simultaneously exist on some aliens coffee table while they simultaneously exist on your coffee table.
- Retra 7y agoThere are. Look into a microscope.