what if solar systems are synonymous to atoms in that they are the minute building blocks of something greater? - eviltoast

Prove me wrong, I dare you!

  • Photon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The biggest issue with this idea is the speed of light. Atoms participate in a lot of interactions because subatomic particles act nearly instantaneously. There are millions of interactions occurring within a single proton at any given moment, with various virtual particles annihilating one another. Even if you increased the time scale, space is extremely large and there just wouldn’t be a lot happening in a solar system. There would be slight perturbations in orbits, and the sun would go through cycles quickly, but it’s extremely stable when compared to an atom.

    Then if you look on a galaxy-wide perspective, the actions within the solar system are irrelevant to most of the galaxy. It would take a hundred thousand years for even the sun burning out to register, and more than likely it wouldn’t even matter for any other solar systems in our area.

    Then if you look beyond galaxies, it’s mostly just the intergalactic medium being siphoned one way or the other, with only the random movement of galaxies determining anything.

    Atoms have the weak and strong nuclear forces, as well as electromagnetism to create the complexity of the universe. Solar systems have little else but gravity, constrained by incredible distances even on the scale of the speed of light.