Perhaps its just the LSD speaking...
but - when you look at things at the atomic level, and then at the astronomic level, isn't everythnig the same.

Our atoms are just star systems, our galaxies just electrons and protons - the earth just strange quarks, the moon dark matter...

Do many people subscribe to this theory?

Is this fractal theory?

We can zoom in and out and it's all just one great mandlebrot? should I just crack open the vodka?
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Mon 13 Apr 2009, 1:09, 7 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

many years ago...
okay, so 30 or so...

i remember seeing an animated film about scale, zooming in and in and in until i wanted to be sick. i remember a mosquito sucking blood, the scene zooming in on the blood cells.
the whole thing was also reversed, up to the scale of galaxies and shit. the general impression i got (as a kid) was that the really huge and the absolutely tiny were the same thing. gave me fucking nightmares!!!

years later my good friend mike vortex (R.I.P.) lent me a book called "the chaos of nature" (or there abouts) which was a collection of images of river-deltas and ferns, hurricanes and rivulets, all showing that what nature writes large she also writes so very small...


you are not alone ;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 13 Apr 2009, 1:34, Reply)

No it's not (yes it is)
But I'm sure you'll love powers of 10 to go with your vodka.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Mon 13 Apr 2009, 9:18, Reply)

it is in
Men In Black, so it must be true. we all live in a pendant on a cat in a marble in a locker.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Mon 13 Apr 2009, 10:53, Reply)

I used to know a chap
who was convinced that the solar system was a gold atom, as gold atoms have 9 electrons or something.
Not sure if that's right, we didn't have a physics teacher at school!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 13 Apr 2009, 15:10, Reply)

it's just a massive coincidence

( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 13 Apr 2009, 18:12, Reply)

Nah
It's probably because of the 1/r*r properties of both the gravitational and electrical fields driving most pictoral models of electron orbits to look like orbiting bodies rather than the more-correct (but much harder to illustrate) probability density maps.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Mon 13 Apr 2009, 19:44, Reply)

so in effect
it's all because scientists can't draw?

edit: i like this reply to reply thing. it's swish
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 13 Apr 2009, 20:26, Reply)