From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: -=*><*=-       
Date & Time: 04/30/90 07:27:18
Message Number  4064

>And what about the theory that the planets are just atomic particles
>in a very very very large other system.
     
    Uhhh..... right. There are similarities between atomic particles
and electrons (they both revolve around something in the center),
but there are HUGE differences:
    1. Electrons are "fuzzy" in the sense that they don't really exist
       in any one place. They're more wave than particle. (Look up
       De Broglie (sp?) for more info.) Planets, so far as I can tell,
       are solid -- and not spread out.
    2. Planets seem to keep to the rule: one planet, one orbit.
       In the first orbit, atoms have two orbits, then they have six
       orbits, then ten. (Unless they're excited -- which I'm not
       getting into.)
   
     3. An atom is unstable when it has more electrons than protons.
        (Generally.) This solar system has nine (or more) planets;
        one "proton" (of a sun.) In a miniaturized world, this would
        be H-9 -- a REAL bitch of an element to find. (One person, a
        Wally B. Whatnot, once claimed to have found it. He also claimed
        to know Bigfoot personally, and called UFO people "some of his
        best friends.)
    
   On the other hoof, it's real likely that any chemical laws of that
"superuniverse" above us are completely different than any laws down
here -- so all of my arguments might flop completely. But, I hope not.
                Chip P. Unicorn