fallingchip 0 #1 August 12, 2005 ...from an old college buddy. I think he dropped to much acid back in college. I think he was experiencing a harmless flashback. He called to explain to me something that he has figured out. Some of you may have heard this before, I never had until now and someone may have told him but he insist he came up with this all on his own. Ever look at a picture of our Solar System? It's a spitting image of an atom. The Sun being the nucleus and the planets being the electrons/neutrons(whatever). Makes since...a least I thought so. But then he started verbalizing his mind journey and it got a little weird... His Theory: Our Solar System is an atom of something bigger. Earth is just an electron in the atom. This makes the universe God. Which in turn means we are just part of one atom that makes up something bigger. His example was we could be part of the atom that makes up Gods fingernail and when God clips his fingernail it will become what we call the end of the world. As he explained this I couldn't help but think of the last scene of Men in Black when they opened the locker door. I found this conversation humorous to sat the least. Any thoughts?______________________________________________ "A radical man is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhondaLea 4 #2 August 12, 2005 Well...there you go... The Universal Brain rl [#666666] Meaning is what you bring to things, not what you take from them. Lois McMaster Bujold Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rookie120 0 #3 August 12, 2005 Sounds like a buddy of mine when he gets drunk. He knows all the answers of the universe when he's drunk. Everything evolves. Your friend who called you? his name isnt Jim is it?If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fallingchip 0 #4 August 12, 2005 I emailed that to him. My phone will be ringing shortly...______________________________________________ "A radical man is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cloudseeker2001 0 #5 August 12, 2005 I have explored this thought a few times and without the help of acid. But, instead of the universe being god, I think it is probably a small part of a really big coffee table leg. "Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance, others mean and rueful of the western dream" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fallingchip 0 #6 August 12, 2005 ...or a big titty. That would be nice...______________________________________________ "A radical man is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #7 August 12, 2005 it is probably a small part of a really big coffee table leg *** In a home of a family with pets....explains the smell when it rains I guess.... ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluheelrtx 0 #8 August 12, 2005 Sounds like one of the Simpsons intros. -- Jason ---- Jason -- Some people never go crazy. What truly boring lives they must lead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #9 August 12, 2005 Shoot, I figured that out back in the '60s...then I quit drugs.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fallingchip 0 #10 August 12, 2005 ______________________________________________ "A radical man is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,070 #11 August 12, 2005 >Ever look at a picture of our Solar System? >It's a spitting image of an atom. ?? The electron orbitals in atoms look like the attachement. They don't look like planets. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diablopilot 2 #12 August 12, 2005 Sounds like a plot from several SciFi short stories from the "Golden Age" of SciFi, the 1930's...---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fallingchip 0 #13 August 12, 2005 attachment won't open. I get that alot since i got a Mac. I wasn't stating fact, I was sharing a humorous moment, but I still have hope that we are a small part of the big titty edit: speeliing______________________________________________ "A radical man is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,070 #14 August 12, 2005 Sorry, try this one: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fallingchip 0 #15 August 12, 2005 thanks, but still no go. some attachments I can open, but some ask for me to choose an application, and I can't figure out which one to use. I've tryed them all. I think its a program I don't have....yet.______________________________________________ "A radical man is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydog 2 #16 August 12, 2005 He had probably just watched National Lampoons Animal House. Where Donald Sutherland explains the universe in nearly exactly the same terms. BrynJourney not destination..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
missg8tordivr 0 #17 August 12, 2005 I have thought about that too just after consuming many beverages. My friend and I like to talk about God, Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and pretty much anything else in the universe that needs to be figured out. The drunker we get, the more world/life problems we solve. Bad thing is, I can never remember what it is we concluded the next day. *** F LORIDA! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Knobee 0 #18 August 12, 2005 QuoteBad thing is, I can never remember what it is we concluded the next day. That's why video cameras can be mounted on tripods. And I think there are places on the Intarweb that will pay for those videos as well.... Those that have not jumped can not understand Those that have jumped can not explain. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #19 August 12, 2005 Quote...or a big titty. That would be nice... hmmm. an atom that makes up the big tittie of God?! Well I hope its a she and I hope shes hot!Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pope 0 #20 August 12, 2005 sounds very plausible to me...except maybe the bit about God. ...seems to me that's EXACTLY what that last scene in 'Men in Black' WAS about. pope Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Elisha 1 #21 August 12, 2005 Google 'Mandelbrot set' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goose491 0 #22 August 12, 2005 I love a good Pipe-dream! I have often thought of the atom as being a solar system or sorts. Funny thing the atom... What is it?... It's what you make it. That's why it acts funnier and funnier the closer the look you get when you are trying to figure it out. If you knew that it was just what you made it, it would become more and more specifically what you chose the closer the look you got at it. ? Recently, on a non-muggle-mushroom-munch, I had a whimsical, mystical epiphany of mine own. [cue twillight zone music] The mysterious 27 grams of apparent weight one loses when they die. Some say this is the weight of the soul. This explanation would not discredit that however, since it is the life-energy which is required to generate it. With all the electricity coursing through your body you have an electromagnetic field. With all the iron in your body, you are quite the conductor. When a conductor is passed through an electro-magnetic field, the ellectrons line up and a magnet is created. The Earth itself is a giant magnet as well. Could it be that whislt we live, we have a slight magnetic attraction to the rock? And when we die and the electricity stops flowing back and forth in the body, we lose that slight magnetism? What do you all think? My Karma ran over my Dogma!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fallingchip 0 #23 August 12, 2005 QuoteQuote...or a big titty. That would be nice... hmmm. an atom that makes up the big tittie of God?! Well I hope its a she and I hope shes hot! Well I didn't mean God's titty just any titty will do. However, I always thought God was a female. ______________________________________________ "A radical man is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuFantasma 0 #24 August 12, 2005 Hmmmm... so your friend must be a quarkY yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisL 2 #25 August 12, 2005 Actually the solar system doesnt even remotely resemble an atom. There are no atoms with only one electron per shell (and 10 shells) there are no atoms where all the electrons orbit in the same plane in the same direction. There are no atoms where any of the electrons have their own electrons orbiting them There are no atoms that have only one particle in the nucleus and 10 electrons Its a dumb comparison. Sorry, but it is __ My mighty steed Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
