I mean how smart can a person who believes this really be ?
2007-10-24 06:10:41 · 23 answers · asked by blonde 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You might have a point if your assertion was accurate. However, as it demonstrates your complete lack of both atomic and galactic physics, it renders your "conclusion" meaningless. Perhaps, it could be rehabilitated by rephrasing it as "How smart can a person who asks a question like this be?"
2007-10-24 06:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Actually, atoms and galaxies behave nothing alike. A person who believes they do might be smart, but quite ignorant of science. If you are trying to argue that the presence of order in the universe proves some intelligent entity is pulling the strings, I don't see that as an explanation. Explaining the physical universe by saying "God did it" is how exasperated parents answer one too many "whys" from a curious child. It is not a suitable explanation for intelligent adults. At this point the honest answer to many questions is "we don't know".
2007-10-24 06:22:10 · answer #2 · answered by injanier 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What? Planets and stars can tunnel though each other? Wow I never knew that!
1) atoms are not the smallest particles. Atoms are made up of neutrons, protons and electrons. These in turn are made up of quarks. I do not know what quarks are made from, but people are looking.
2) Atoms act nothing like solar systems in reality. for middle school physics it helps to think of electrons in orbits around a nucleus. However when you get to high school level you find out that this is just a gross simplification.
Take a look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#The_shapes_of_orbitals
And you can see that electrons do not move in nice circular orbits around the nucleus, but exist as a probability distribution across a variety of strange shapes.
So, to answer your question, someone who thinks that atoms behave like solar systems is not very smart.
2007-10-24 06:24:20 · answer #3 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the problem is they don't. Right now, the biggest probelm in physics is why classical physics (relativity, gravity, etc... i.e. how celestial bodies interact) does not agree with how quantum mechanics (atoms, sub atomic particles, etc) work.
This is where the idea of the "theory of everything" comes in to play... trying to find a correlation between the biggest parts and the smallest parts.
So, the problem is, you don't really know science and are trying to make scientific observations. How smart can a person who does that really be?
2007-10-24 06:14:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Behaves how? Atoms do not behave like galaxies, they both are subject to the same physical forces, gravity, the strong and weak nuclear force, and electromagnetism, but there are great differences.
The random occurrence of our Universe is not an accident and it is not on purpose, it just happened because it did. No creator needed.
My IQ is only 137 in the mathematical and 142 in tactile. I know I'm not the smartest. What about you.
2007-10-24 06:18:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The essence of quantum theory is that galaxies and atoms do not behave like one another-other than in the grossest sense of masses orbiting a center. In galaxies it is gravity which moves stars etc. Attempts in the early part of the last century to apply Newtonian physics to the very small failed. Quantum mechanics was developed to predict and explain the behavior of things very small.
2007-10-24 06:16:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's not a matter of believing. It's a matter of science. It has been seen and documented and tested. You have to be very smart with a lot of schooling to understand it. Just because you don't, doesn't mean it is without truth. They may look like galaxies, but they don't behave the same way.
2007-10-24 06:15:06 · answer #7 · answered by punch 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i trust contained in the danger. i do not inevitably trust there is any thanks to coach or disprove it, although the idea is alluring because it brings up an entire new theory of existence. The non secular implications are exciting too. I gained't even bypass there because it really is not some thing i ought to debate besides. nevertheless, more suitable discovered persons than me are honestly waiting to communicate it and per chance furnish some commerce techniques. i'm no longer effective how an option universe works, yet when it does, or if there are different universes, it honestly isn't previous mind's eye to trust there are similar lifeforms "available".
2016-10-22 22:42:56 · answer #8 · answered by loewus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atoms don't behave like galaxies. Subatomic particles, the stuff that makes up atoms obey the laws of quantum physics whereas galaxies obey the laws of classic physics.
2007-10-24 06:18:53 · answer #9 · answered by Patty 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Just because you've seen picture of little ball-like electrons whizzing around bigger ball-like nuclei doesn't, I'm afraid, mean they look anything like that.
In fact, it's folly to talk about atoms 'looking' like anything at all, because down that small everything behaves like little probability clouds, and nothing is solid.
Suffice it to say that the similarities you perceive are only present in entry level science articles. It's not really there.
CD
2007-10-24 06:19:57 · answer #10 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋