Comment on sweet dreams

• antidote101@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or just reject plank length and all other dimensional limitations like it.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plank length is not like universal pixels. It’s just where current models say there’s little reason to look at smaller things, since it’s kind of like worrying about which flecks of paint are coming off a car in a racing video game. It’s just … so irrelevant as to be ignorable.

    It’s nigh impossible to have any energy that could interact with us or atoms on the Plank scale that wouldn’t just collapse in to a black hole. It’s not so much any observation of real-world pixelation, and more that even to atoms, it’s very tiny.

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    • antidote101@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your comment about current models, known energy types, and universal pixels seems to ignore the post’s topic (which isn’t really about known models or energy types).

      A better way to disregard the post would be to just point out that solar systems aren’t that big in terms of scales of the universe, and that there’s no indication of any charges, electrons, or valance layers about.

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not responding to the comic. I’m responding to someone who was talking about the Planck length. Please try to keep up.

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  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    planck length doesn’t come up even once, it all boils down to these things: 1. electron has momentum, and from that follows it has a wavelength, and at the same time 2. orbit is stable, which means that after every “rotation” electron has to end up with the same phase, which means there is only a finite number of solutions to time-independent schroedinger equation for (hydrogen) atom (don’t bother solving it on paper for anything with more than one electron) and these things are spherical harmonics

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And why is that?

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  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    planetary orbits are not quantized, for starters. atomic orbitals are occupied by pairs (at most) of electrons, and this is because of qm spin exists which has no analogue in large scale. it’s also a staple among vapid thonkers like mckenna

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here’s a few reasons this doesn’t work:

    1. Planets are different sizes, electrons are all identical
    2. 2 planets cannot occupy the same orbit, but (at least) two electrons with opposite spin can
    3. If you have a high speed planet entering the solar system, you can’t transfer some of its energy to another planet and have the rogue planet continue with less energy
    4. All orbital energies are possible, not so much for atoms
    5. Planetary orbits emit gravitational waves. If electrons produced the equivalent (bremstrahlung radiation) during “orbit”, they would collide with the nucleus hilariously fast. This isn’t a problem because electron orbitals don’t have a physical representation.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank

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• mutilated_sphincter@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can confirm the latter makes you consider this

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can confirm, this is ALL I see on certain substances

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