May 29, 2007

You da man. You show great courage and insight. Here's a question I have: In an imperfect world, in which we so obviously live, how is it that electrons, et al, can revolve in perfect orbit, around its nucleus, in parallel to our own solar system ... with no outside help from man? I believe the energy that does that ... is God. Whaddya think? That's my best guess. Which, of course, is light years beyond anything some dick-head preacher might say (Not that all preachers are dick-heads. But oh so many are, n'est pas?

Interesting question – and one I hadn't heard before. Fortunately (for me, at least), it has an easy answer: Electrons don't orbit around an atom's nucleus like a little universe. That atomic model was replaced by a much more esoteric (but accurate) quantum physics model in which electron orbits have been replaced by an electron cloud that represents the probability of an electron being in a given place at a given time.

But let's pretend that your original statement was correct and electrons orbited around atoms in the same way that planets orbited around a sun. I'd say that the "god" that kept these orbits perfect (insofar as they are perfect) wouldn't be any supernatural deity, but rather the mathematics of a stable system. Different physical forces bind atoms and planets, but both of them are bound by the laws of mathematics.

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