Re: Basic question about atoms

Matt Gregory wrote: 
Bjoern Feuerbacher wrote:

Matt Gregory wrote: 


Why not?  If we could speed up time and watch the planets revolve
around the sun a ridiculous number of times per second, they would
form a cloudlike sphere around the sun.



Err, no, there would be no sphere, there would be only 9 ring-like structures. 


If the universe only consisted of the sun and the earth and neither
of them ever changed at all, then it would be true that the earth
would orbit in a ring and it would never change.  But that's not
how the universe is.  There are countless other forces acting on
the earth besides its inertia.

First, inertia is not a force. Second, I really don't know what collection of forces you imagine which could make the earth reach virtually every point in a sphere if you only let enough time pass.


Bye,
Bjoern
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