File photo: A microscopic photo of a sheet of glass only two atoms thick blends with an artist's conception to show the structural rendering. (Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science)
File photo: A microscopic photo of a sheet of glass only two atoms thick blends with an artist's conception to show the structural rendering. (Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science)
Unsettled science.
As again the last window we manage to pry open reveals a reality with more questions than we had before that window was opened.
The universe can’t ever be fully explained - it’s like an infinite onion; layers within layers, within layers ad infinitum.
The title is the best part of the article.
Any attempt to observe something that small will disrupt the target. Thee nice pictures are only speculation.
Long ago I opined that space and matter alike only exist as a consequence of time, as a differential between states in time as time flows through an energy field, and that dimensionality is not a given and that matter as organized energy, energy that is puffed up volume wise by means of its structure, is actually less dense unorganized energy.
It may sound strange but that view also works with the notion that we exist inside a black hole, that the moment any black hole achieves singularity it internally erupts into a “universe” that creates structure and dimensionality within it, causing it to seemingly expand to any outside observer, throwing off their calculations of its mass if they are trying to infer those by its indirectly observed event horizon of some such.
Of course I’ve also joked that there is no dark matter or dark energy, just that a large part of the otherwise observable universe is trying to hide itself from Earth, the cosmic epicenter of Ideological Stupid (now festered into the current state of progressivism), as well as move away from us as fast as they can.
Wuzzat? I’ve BS’d today and don’t get my unemployment drachmas from Bea Arthur?
Like so much of God’s creation, the more deeply one peers into things from atoms to the structure of even simple one-celled organisms, one finds them to be increasingly complex.
My house has holes in it. In fact the wind is coming through window cracks right now, so I’m going with the French guys theory.
It’s like our entire universe is sitting on a shelf in some other universe ...
Maybe it will lead them to God.
God holds It
All Together.
I’m curious as to the relative size of and distance between the electrons and the nucleus.
Has anyone ever seen a relative size comparison of electron orbits versus our solar system or other large subject?
The answer is 42.
“Do these valence electrons make me look fat?”
I could follow the explanation of the EMC effect... but got lost trying to understand what’s different in the competing theory.
Any single-paragraph summary would be appreciated.
The fabric of space/time is constantly expanding. If there were no matter then this expansion would be at a uniform rate everywhere.
However there is matter. And all matter causes "drag" on the expansion of space time. The more mass, the more drag. The expansion of space/time slows down, or drags more, the more massive an object is.
For example the sun causes a tremendous amount of drag. We call the visible effects of this "gravity". Gravity is simply the slowing of the expansion of space/time around a massive object.
Imagine taking a golf ball, a basketball, a marble and a grain of sand and shrink wrapping plastic wrap around it and then stretching it tight at a constant rate. Anything near the basketball is going to cause less drag because it's near the basketball which is causing a tremendous amount of drag. This drag is also pulling and stretching the basketball at the same time. Anything near the basketball is being stretched less than it would be if it were not near the basketball.
Consider what happens when an asteroid or comet "falls" to earth. It is torn apart by what we call "friction" which is really just the result of being stretched and pulled by the much slower expansion of space/time as it gets closer to the surface of the earth. That's a rough analogy.
The same thing happens on a micro scale. Within an atom there is more mass at the nucleus. Remember space/time is wrapped tightly around all particles of matter. So within an atoms nucleus the protons and neutrons are exerting MORE drag which means they are being stretched more then free protons or neutrons. Which makes them bigger.
That is a really cool image.
Interesting on how the photo has a relatively random pattern of large and small rings, and not all the same size; whereas the artist’s rendering makes the pattern more regular and symmetric.