tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561631984395061740.post5863408789939050857..comments2023-10-22T06:15:30.760-04:00Comments on Boomer Musings: Missing the EarthDouglashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09752593286034877538noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561631984395061740.post-30541945931177164212011-02-22T20:55:23.846-05:002011-02-22T20:55:23.846-05:00A-musing.When I was a child in elementary school I...A-musing.<br><br>When I was a child in elementary school I proposed a theory. I noticed the similarities between the galaxies and the tiny atoms that make it all up. The Earth is negatively charged much like an electron which is what got me thinking. <br><br>My "teacher" said that the similarities were purely visual because of the diagrams I had seen.<br><br>I proposed that perhaps this was only thus because we, located physically in the galaxies, can only see it at our "speed." She said my idea was preposterous and other students laughed at me.<br><br>I only wish my "teacher" understood gravity and time a little better so as not to humiliate a 6-7 year old publicly that way.<br><br>She's probably dead by now so I guess there's that.<br><br>Oh and about the moon. I have spent many hours stargazing contemplating its origin. Because of its ghostly white appearance to us, I think it was created around the same time. It's proportions are pretty close to spherical so any break off and/or collision would have left more evidence I think. Other moons are oddly shaped and discolored. The lighter "appearance" of the moon (in comparison to brown Earth) makes me imagine that the lighter dust surrounding the proto-Earth just collapsed in on itself during the first few millenia of Earth's creation.HektikLyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02865530974330320159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561631984395061740.post-39217992705873745512009-08-03T14:56:58.581-04:002009-08-03T14:56:58.581-04:00Hektik - I thought I was the only one who looked a...Hektik - I thought I was the only one who looked at it that way. Which gave me the hypothesis that the entire universe is simply a nuclear explosion on some planet large enough to make sense of this. But your teacher was right about the representation. It was merely an image that depicted the concept and not an actual image. Still, she could have been a lot more tactful and encouraging.<br />Now they are modeling them as a core with a electron "cloud". And this is based upon the image results of a scanning tunneling microscope. But how, I say, do we know that this image is accurate? Could the "cloud" simply be the blur of orbiting electrons? Would our solar system look like a cloud with a bright dot in the center if viewed from far enough away? And what does an atom within an explosion look like?Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09752593286034877538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561631984395061740.post-32021554242882686362009-08-03T12:48:56.647-04:002009-08-03T12:48:56.647-04:00A-musing.
When I was a child in elementary school...A-musing.<br /><br />When I was a child in elementary school I proposed a theory. I noticed the similarities between the galaxies and the tiny atoms that make it all up. The Earth is negatively charged much like an electron which is what got me thinking. <br /><br />My "teacher" said that the similarities were purely visual because of the diagrams I had seen.<br /><br />I proposed that perhaps this was only thus because we, located physically in the galaxies, can only see it at our "speed." She said my idea was preposterous and other students laughed at me.<br /><br />I only wish my "teacher" understood gravity and time a little better so as not to humiliate a 6-7 year old publicly that way.<br /><br />She's probably dead by now so I guess there's that.<br /><br />Oh and about the moon. I have spent many hours stargazing contemplating its origin. Because of its ghostly white appearance to us, I think it was created around the same time. It's proportions are pretty close to spherical so any break off and/or collision would have left more evidence I think. Other moons are oddly shaped and discolored. The lighter "appearance" of the moon (in comparison to brown Earth) makes me imagine that the lighter dust surrounding the proto-Earth just collapsed in on itself during the first few millenia of Earth's creation.HektikLyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865530974330320159noreply@blogger.com