Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Kenneth wrote:
> > Hmm, don't understand that. You mean, because of the 'set'
> > attractive/repulsive forces between electrons and nucleus?
>
> I think you're going way beyond what I know. But I'm happy to BS for a
> while. ;-)

Yes, cosmological B.S'ing is FUN!! (Much of what passes for current cosmological
theorizing by 'the experts' seems to me to be so much arcane B.S.--but that's
just me...)

The idea I had (which you kindled) was rather basic: If atomic forces remain
unchanging as intra-atom space expands, and if neutrons/protons/electrons remain
their same sizes too (points!), then it seems logical that the
attraction/repulsion forces at play would keep the atom the 'same size',
regardless of any expansion of space. (Assuming that the forces themselves don't
diminish as space expands.) Or something like that ;-)
>

> OK, I'm officially not knowing what I'm talking about. But that's what I
> understood - the mutual attractions between things close enough that the
> expansion of space in the middle (gravity or QED) is what holds smaller
> things together even as the bigger things spread apart.

I need to read more about that--sounds suitably cool and interesting, and new to
me. I think you had mentioned something similar in a previous post, which piqued
my interest at the time.

One of my own 'heroes of science' is Michael Faraday. Here was a rather typical
guy, no 'scientist' in any academic sense, with no advanced math training (or
any at all??), who nevertheless, by virtue of sheer *curiosity* and a good
experimental bent, came up with fundamental thoughts on electromagnetism--that
no one else before him had even imagined. There are probably thousands like him
in the world today--most of whom, with no scientific 'credentials,' will
probably never be heard from. But it certainly makes me wonder if seemingly
crackpot ideas by non-experts may, in fact, hold the key to the true
understanding of nature. Alas, it was probably easier (and more fruitful) being
a scientist in Faraday's time; practically *any* learned person could be a
natural philosopher, as there was no specialization then--and there were so
*many* things yet undiscovered.

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