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6 Sep 2024 13:21:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Have some SEMs  
From: nemesis
Date: 28 Jan 2009 13:42:27
Message: <4980a713@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook escreveu:
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> But hey, you aren't the first person to point out that the solar 
>> system looks conspicuously like the internal structure of an atom. ;-)
> 
> No it doesn't.  Planets aren't waveforms that appear to occupy the 
> entire volume of space in a certain pattern around the central element 
> and turn into particle-like entities under certain conditions

Define particle.  A proton was a particle (an atom in the original sense 
of the word) but now is made of bosons, or fermions or quarks or 
whatever is newer...

The solar system is made of clearly distinguished particles that don't 
*appear* waveform.  But that is just because we seeing the universe from 
our very slowed spacetime capsule.  If you were a humongous giant larger 
than any galaxy clusters and looked at it from your spacetime 
point-of-view, things would be going pretty fast and millions or 
billions of galaxian years would get past in a split second.  Would you 
see planets moving in regular orbits or just blurs around a rapidly 
fading core?

It's all a matter of perspective I guess.  Though I first thought as 
galaxies as subparticle matter in a larger universe...


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