Could an Atom be a tiny Solar System?

Question

Do the Atoms that make us up, and the Solar system around us hold fundamental similarities?

Solar Systems group together to ultimately make the universe.. as do atoms to make cells...

Could there be multiple universes, just as there are multiple cells?

Could we be part of something on a scale incomprehensible to the human mind?

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Or is it total NONSENSE?

Answer 1

With an open mind all is possible.

Answer 2

It has been proved though experiments upon volumes of empty space that space is not empty, that there are forces in absolute emptiness, called Casimir forces, that would not have been there if the space were completely devoid of everything, or really empty. The experiments show that empty space in fact is seething with activity, a place where particles of all sort pop into existence out of nowhere and then disappear into nothingness, it is as if space had borrowed matter from the time future – and that is exactly what scientists believe is the case, that those particles come from another dimension of time and space in existence.

The initial comparison made between the solar system and an atom, however, was for the purpose of simplistic understanding of an atom back in the early days of atomic research, as no one was sure back then about what an atom might look like, and even scientists had no idea that an atoms could also have an internal structural, an intricate sub-atomic world of its own. When Earnest Rutherford carried out his famous particle scattering and back-scattering experiment on a gold leaf foil it was easy to visualise as if it were a mini solar system. But this is just as far as the comparison went, as we know now that atom is infinitesimally more complicated than a solar system. Our knowledge about atom and about its intricate inner world has come long way since the day of Neil Bohr and Lord Rutherford.

We know now with the help of magnificent theories of Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Electrodynamics, full certainty that at the heart of atom uncertainty reigns, that it is not possible with any certainty to predict the behaviours of sub-atomic particles. They could not be observed directly and it cannot be determined, for instance, when and where a given electron would be within the zone of the probability of finding it round the nucleus of an atom. In this world only predictions can be made, and the conventional know with it need for certainty and accuracy fails completely.

Modern research informs us about the existence of anti-matter alongside normal matter, anti-matter that is entirely composed of particles entirely opposite in characteristic to the ones we find in normal state of matter. The solid proof behind the discovery anti-matter also suggests that there could also be an anti-universe in existence. Now if all the space and time are inside a the universe that we are, then the anti-universe would have to be somewhere else, not only out of the entire space that we have but also out of all the time in the existence of the universe.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/26321

Answer 3

Very interestingly, Yes. the solar system and atoms do have similar structure. In solar system, planets go around the sun, revolving themselves, inhellical path. In atom, the electrones go around the nucleous, spinning themselves, in hellical path. to say that they are different only n so far as their szes shall not be over estimating?
it is perfectly logical to imagine that there could be another solar systems, I mean systems similar to that of ours, in which they also have another sun at the centre. In space time continuem, where such other systems may be, we are unable to know. Our faculties are extreamly limitted, in this physical world.
ther could also be the possibility of "anti-matter" solar systems, where, instead of electrones going around the nucleous, positively charged protones might be going around, and dangerously, can you imagine, if one such atom happens to come in contact with our solar system?
In the Yoga Philosophy of Patanjalli, there is a stage in which the gross body could be left behind and the subtel (Mind/Soul)body can be moving out. People claim that they can do this travelling leaving the body behind, I do not know for sure, but i do not rule out the possibility. Perhaps the ancient indians had obtained all knowledge about solar sytem, planets, galaxy, orbits, speed of light etc. through these aster travels, who knows! There is one thing that we know, ancient indians did obtain these knowledge in the days, when glass was not even known to man, leave alone a telescope!!!

Answer 4

I'm afraid that atoms can't be little solar systems, they are barely particles at all and their composite parts are often considered to be wave forms unable of corpuscular form and thus are unable to sustain anything "on them" which of course would have to be smaller and therefore discovered by further breaking up of the atom.

As for multiple universes this is a much more reaosnable propsition and there are several theories of physics which hold to the posibility of either parallel universes or multiverses in which our "universe" is simply floating in nothingness along with other "universes" much in the way that galaxies exist as we know them.

Answer 5

We are part of something incomprehensible to the human intellect. It is generally referred to as infinity. That nothing can exist outside of infinity means that we all exist within it. As nothing in infinity can be seperate we must therefore all be the same one thing. There can only be one infinity or it would not be infinity. You are looking at the very workshop of God when you consider the quantum universe and how things relate to one another at lower than the atomic level. Read Quantum field theory and try to imagine what this means for your own conscious being. It is amazing.

Answer 6

Imagine, how many solar systems there could be in one human eye! And maybe, there are another tiny people from a tiny Earth inside us, who are responsible for unexplainable things that happen in our world. When something goes wrong in there, like an explosion of a tiny sun and then the whole tiny solar system and then another, then we go blind, or get cancer, etc. Maybe some really tiny and clever people in some particular solar systems started to research on how to het out of your eye!

Answer 7

Solar Systems can be the size of atoms

Answer 8

Solar = sun. You would need one of those in your tiny systems to be considered possible. So not all would fit the criteria, but I would think there are some tiny solar systems out there.

Answer 9

as far as I know an atom looks more as a fuzzy ball then a solar system, don't get tricked by the usual picture they put on school books of atoms

Answer 10

Why not, Everything we used to think of as fact changes as we learn, We used to think the Earth was flat, We used to think the Earth was the centre of the Universe, We used to think Tony Blair was a Socialist. It just shows how stupid we can be to discount any ideas that may seem strange at the present time. Great question have a star.

Answer 11

It cannot be called a "solar" system: "sol" means sun. It is what it is: an atomic system. Why change the name? You may say it "resembles" a solar system, but what ever is its source of power, it is not the hot, killing gasses of "sol."