questions about comparing atoms and solar systems?

Question

i know theres alot of differences they can calculate and observe. What i want to know is did they acount that the atoms activites are trillions of times faster?
The same thing but viewed trillions of times faster would apper to be different.

Answer 1

Well, the differences certainly outweigh the similarities. An element with nine electrons (Fluorine, I think, and obviously I'm leaving the dwarf planet Pluto in as a member of the solar system in using Fluorine) would have numerous particles in the nucleus, not just one.

Remember, the electrons don't actually orbit the nucleus in the same way that planets orbit the sun. There is a cloud of charge which acts like distinct electrons, and in the cloud there are specific 'orbitals' in which it is statistically likely to find an electron (based on it's energy).

Also, all elements, under the proper circumstances, share electrons or give them up. I suppose the solar system could give up a planet if another star came close enough, but it is not the normal thing to happen.

In addition elements don't have the equivalent of comets raging through the region at random places and times. So, really there isn't any real comparison other than the number of large particles in a solar system and an atom. It is an interesting exercise of the mind, however, to think of solar systems as atoms, however, and if you took it to a logical conclusion galaxies then would be cells, clusters of galaxies would be tissues, and so on. Sounds like the makings of a science fiction novel.