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Originally posted by on-ramp
In the Bohr model of an atom, electrons orbit about a fixed nucleas . This is the same as planets orbiting about a fixed "sun".
those two events happen at extraordinary scales from each other. Coincidence or an accident ?
Truly extraordinary scales and super-extraordinarily different properties between the "big and the "small". So different that a whole new field of physics was borne -> quantum mechanics.

And "unifying" the big and small remains the so called "holy grail" of physics.

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Kurt
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