Re: Nothing like arguing about the interpretation of scripture

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Michael J Davis <mjdusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Imagine a plank made up of a vast cloud of atom nucleii surrounded by
electrons spinning around them with as much space between the electrons
and the nucleus as there is between the earth and the sun if the atoms
were to be scaled up. And imagine your foot made up in a similar way
with another cloud of atoms. How difficult is each step we take!"
Like Dr Johnson, my response was to say "I refute it thus!"[1] stamping
my foot, and I went off Eddison as a popularist.

Except that I don't think you have refuted it! As I understand it,
Eddison is exactly right - the distance between nucleus and electrons
is comparable to the distance from sun to planets. I don't agree that
it makes walking difficult - except perhaps in the sense of the
centipede in the ditch.

God bless,
Kendall K. Down

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